قافلہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قافله (qāfila), from Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.fɪ.lɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /qɑːf.lɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: قا‧فِ‧لَہ

Noun

قافِلَہ • (qāfila) m (Hindi spelling क़ाफ़िला)

1. convoy, motorcade
2. caravan

   Synonym: کارواں (kārvāṉ)

3. (figuratively) tribe, group

Declension

Declension of قافلہ
	singular	plural
direct	قافِلہ (qāfilah)	قافِلے (qāfile)
oblique	قافِلے (qāfile)	قافِلوں (qāfilõ)
vocative	قافِلے (qāfile)	قافِلو (qāfilo)

Further reading

• “قافلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قافلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قافلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.