Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रेत (preta). Cognate to Sinhalese ප්රේත (prēta)
- IPA(key): /fu.ɾeː.t̪a/, [fu.ɾeː.t̪ä]
- Hyphenation: ފު‧ރޭ‧ތަ
ފުރޭތަ • (furēta) (plural ފުރޭތަތައް (furētatak̊))
- ghost, phantom, phantasm, apparition, wraith, spook
- an evil being, especially animating the dead
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ފުރޭތަ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 92