Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ف ر ض (f r ḍ)
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Verb

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فَرَضَ (faraḍa) I (non-past يَفْرِضُ (yafriḍu), verbal noun فَرْض (farḍ))

  1. to ordain, to make obligatory
  2. to impose
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فَرَّضَ (farraḍa) II (non-past يُفَرِّضُ (yufarriḍu), verbal noun تَفْرِيض (tafrīḍ))

  1. to notch, to make incisions in
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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فَرْض (farḍm (plural فُرُوض (furūḍ))

  1. verbal noun of فَرَضَ (faraḍa) (form I)
  2. duty
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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ).

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Readings
Classical reading? farz
Dari reading? farz
Iranian reading? farz
Tajik reading? farz

Noun

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فرض (farz) (plural فرض‌ها (farz-hâ))

  1. hypothesis, supposition
  2. presumption, supposition
  3. obligation, duty, must
  4. (Islam) fard, religious duty

Adjective

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Dari فرض
Iranian Persian
Tajik фарз

فرض (farz)

  1. essential, obligatory

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South Levantine Arabic

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Root
ف ر ض
2 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic فَرَضَ (faraḍa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fa.radˤ/, [ˈfɑ.rˤɑdˤ]
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

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فرض (faraḍ) I (present بفرض (bifriḍ))

  1. to assume, to stipulate
  2. to impose

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of فرض (faraḍ)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m فرضت (faraḍt) فرضت (faraḍt) فرض (faraḍ) فرضنا (faraḍna) فرضتو (faraḍtu) فرضو (faraḍu)
f فرضتي (faraḍti) فرضت (farḍat)
present m بفرض (bafriḍ) بتفرض (btifriḍ) بفرض (bifriḍ) منفرض (mnifriḍ) بتفرضو (btifriḍu) بفرضو (bifriḍu)
f بتفرضي (btifriḍi) بتفرض (btifriḍ)
subjunctive m أفرض (ʔafriḍ) تفرض (tifriḍ) يفرض (yifriḍ) نفرض (nifriḍ) تفرضو (tifriḍu) يفرضو (yifriḍu)
f تفرضي (tifriḍi) تفرض (tifriḍ)
imperative m افرض (ifriḍ) افرضو (ifriḍu)
f افرضي (ifriḍi)

Urdu

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1534[1] as Middle Hindi فرض (farz), borrowed from Classical Persian فَرْض (farz), from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ).

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Adjective

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فَرْض (farz) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़र्ज़)

  1. obligatory; compulsory

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فَرْض (farzm (formal plural فَرَائِض (farāiz), Hindi spelling फ़र्ज़)

  1. duty (ie. responsibility)
  2. moral obligation
  3. (chiefly Jurisprudence) a compulsory; mandatory act
  4. (religion) fard, a religious duty or a divine command
  5. (by extension, Islam) the fard prayer
  6. right (often moral but not limited to, also legal)
  7. (by extension) rightful inheritance (ie. the right of inheritors to inherit the deceased's wealth)
  8. supposition

Declension

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Declension of فرض
singular plural
direct فَرْض (farz) فَرْض (farz)
oblique فَرْض (farz) فَرْضوں (farzō̃)
vocative فَرْض (farz) فَرْضو (farzō)

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References

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  1. ^ فرض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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  • فرض”, 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) “فرض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “فرض”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “فرض”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC