إفطار

See also: افطار and أقطار

Arabic

Root
ف ط ر (f-ṭ-r)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔif.tˤaːr/

Noun

إِفْطَار • (ʔifṭār) m

1. verbal noun of أَفْطَرَ (ʔafṭara) (form IV)
2. breaking of fasting
3. breakfast
4. (Islam) iftar, the evening meal (of dates) that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan

Declension

Declension of noun إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِفْطَار ʔifṭār	الْإِفْطَار al-ʔifṭār	إِفْطَار ʔifṭār
Nominative	إِفْطَارٌ ʔifṭārun	الْإِفْطَارُ al-ʔifṭāru	إِفْطَارُ ʔifṭāru
Accusative	إِفْطَارًا ʔifṭāran	الْإِفْطَارَ al-ʔifṭāra	إِفْطَارَ ʔifṭāra
Genitive	إِفْطَارٍ ʔifṭārin	الْإِفْطَارِ al-ʔifṭāri	إِفْطَارِ ʔifṭāri

Descendants

• → English: iftar
• → Malay: iftar
• → Ottoman Turkish: افطار
  • Turkish: iftar
  • → Albanian: iftar
• → Persian: افطار
• → Swahili: iftar

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إفطار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen