Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
غ ف ل (ḡ-f-l)

Pronunciation edit

  • Verb: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.fa.la/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.ful/

Verb edit

تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) VI, non-past يَتَغَافَلُ‎ (yataḡāfalu)

  1. to feign negligence
  2. to neglect
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Noun edit

تَغَافُل (taḡāfulm

  1. verbal noun of تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) (form VI)
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

تُغَافِلُ (tuḡāfilu) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Verb edit

تُغَافِلَ (tuḡāfila) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Verb edit

تُغَافِلْ (tuḡāfil) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun edit

تغافل (tegafül)

  1. a being unmindful and careless
  2. a pretending to be unmindful

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Pashto edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun edit

تغافل (taǧāfúlm

  1. negligence

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? tağāful
Dari reading? tağāful
Iranian reading? tağâfol
Tajik reading? taġoful

Noun edit

Dari تغافل
Iranian Persian
Tajik тағофул

تغافل (tağâfol)

  1. feigning negligence
  2. negligence

Further reading edit

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تَغافُل (taġāfulm (Hindi spelling तग़ाफ़ुल)

  1. unmindfulness, heedlessness, forgetfulness, neglect, negligence, inattention, inadvertence, indifference, listlessness
    Synonym: غفلت

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Further reading edit

  • تغافل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “تغافل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • تغافل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.