آفت

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Noun

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آفت (afet)

  1. calamity
  2. disaster
  3. misfortune

Descendants

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  • Turkish: afet

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? āfat
Dari reading? āfat
Iranian reading? âfat
Tajik reading? ofat

Noun

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Dari آفت
Iranian Persian
Tajik офат

آفت (âfat)

  1. calamity
  2. plague

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian آفت (āfat), from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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آفت (āfatf (Hindi spelling आफ़त)

  1. calamity
  2. plague
  3. adversity
  4. catastrophe
  5. disaster

References

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  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آفت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.