تغافل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
غ ف ل (ḡ-f-l)

Pronunciation

  • Verb: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.fa.la/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.ful/

Verb

تَغَافَلَ • (taḡāfala) VI, non-past يَتَغَافَلُ‎ (yataḡāfalu)

  1. to feign negligence
  2. to neglect
Conjugation

Noun

تَغَافُل • (taḡāful) m

  1. verbal noun of تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) (form VI)
Declension
Descendants

Further reading

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تغافل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “تغافل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Verb

تُغَافِلُ • (tuḡāfilu) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Verb

تُغَافِلَ • (tuḡāfila) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Verb

تُغَافِلْ • (tuḡāfil) (form III)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun

تغافل • (tegafül)

  1. a being unmindful and careless
  2. a pretending to be unmindful

Descendants

  • Turkish: tegafül

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun

تغافل • (taǧāfúl) m

  1. negligence

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰä.ɣɑː.fʊl]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰä.ɣɑː.fʊl]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰä.ɣɔː.ful̥]

Readings
Classical reading? tağāful
Dari reading? tağāful
Iranian reading? tağâfol
Tajik reading? taġoful

Noun

Dari تغافل
Iranian Persian
Tajik тағофул

تغافل • (tağâfol)

  1. feigning negligence
  2. negligence

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation

Noun

تَغافُل • (taġāful) m (Hindi spelling तग़ाफ़ुल)

  1. unmindfulness, heedlessness, forgetfulness, neglect, negligence, inattention, inadvertence, indifference, listlessness
    Synonym: غفلت

Derived terms

  • تغافل کرنا
  • تغافل شعار
  • تغافل شعاری
  • تغافل کیش

Further reading

  • تغافل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “تغافل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • تغافل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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