ફરવું

Gujarati

Etymology

Gujarati verb set
ફરવું (pharvũ)
ફેરવવું (pheravvũ)

Etymology tree

Sanskrit स्पृ (spṛ)der.?

Ashokan Prakrit *𑀨𑀺𑀭𑀢𑀺 (*phirati)

Apabhramsa 𑆦𑆴𑆫𑆅 (phiraï)

Gujarati ફરવું (pharvũ)

Inherited from Middle Gujarati फिरिवउं (phirivaüṃ), from Apabhramsa 𑆦𑆴𑆫𑆅 (phiraï), from Prakrit 𑀨𑀺𑀭𑀇 (phiraï), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀨𑀺𑀭𑀢𑀺 (*phirati). Related to ફરી (pharī), ફરીથી (pharīthī).

Cognates

Cognate with Marathi फिरणे (phirṇe), Hindi फिरना (phirnā), Punjabi ਫਿਰਨਾ / پِھرنا (phirnā), and Bengali ফেরা (phera).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰəɾ.ʋũ/
• Hyphenation: ફર‧વું
• Rhymes: -ũ

Verb

ફરવું • (pharvũ) (intransitive)

1. to spin, rotate
2. to visit a location, implying a sense of thoroughness of the visit
3. to roam free, to go about aimlessly
4. to change or reverse, to turn back

Further reading

More information

• “ફરવું”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
• “ફરવું”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-Gujarati dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
• “ફરવું”, in રેખ્તા ગુજરાતી શબ્દકોશ (rekhtā gujrātī śabdakoś) (in Gujarati), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• “ફરવું”, in गुजराती-हिंदी-अंग्रेज़ी त्रिभाषा कोश (gujrātī-hindī-aṅgrezī tribhāṣā koś) [Gujarati-Hindi-English Trilingual Dictionary] (in Hindi), volume 2, केंद्रीय हिंदी निदेशालय [Central Hindi Directorate], 1989, page 1235
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*phirati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 510