Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian فِتْنَه (fitna), from Arabic فِتْنَة (fitna).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

فِتْنَہ (fitnam (Hindi spelling फ़ितना)

  1. evil, chaos, doom
  2. trial, temptation, misdirection (to disbelief)
  3. tumult

Declension edit

Declension of فتنہ
singular plural
direct فِتْنہ (fitnah) فِتْنے (fitne)
oblique فِتْنے (fitne) فِتْنوں (fitnõ)
vocative فِتْنے (fitne) فِتْنو (fitno)

Further reading edit

  • فتنہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • فتنہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فتنہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “فتنه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 776
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “فتنه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 867
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