بالفرض

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بِالْفَرْض (bi-l-farz), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɪl.fəɾz/
• Rhymes: -əɾz
• Hyphenation: بِل‧فَرْض

Adverb

بِالْفَرْض • (bilfarz) (Hindi spelling बिलफ़र्ज़)

1. supposing; for the sake of the argument; for instance
2. granted that...

Further reading

• “بالفرض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بالفرض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فرض”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بالفرض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بالفرض”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “بالفرض”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC