मुफ़लिसी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مفلسی (muflisī). By surface analysis, मुफ़लिस (muflis, “poor”) +‎ -ई (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /mʊf.lɪ.siː/, /mʊpʰ.lɪ.siː/

Noun

मुफ़लिसी • (muflisī) f (Urdu spelling مُفْلِسِی)

1. bankruptcy

   Synonyms: (figuratively, by extension) सत्यानाश (satyānāś), दिवालियापन (divāliyāpan), दिवाला (divālā)

2. poverty

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ग़रीबी

Declension

Declension of मुफ़लिसी (sg-only fem ī-stem)

	singular
direct	मुफ़लिसी muflisī
oblique	मुफ़लिसी muflisī
vocative	मुफ़लिसी muflisī

Further reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मुफलिसी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3970
• Platts, John T. (1884) “muflisī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1053
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “mufalisī”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 823
• “मुफ़्लिसी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.