قافله

See also: قافلة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fi.ˈla]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fɪ.lǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fɪ.lǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.fi.lǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.fe.lé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qɔ.fi.lǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	qāfila
Dari reading^?	qāfila
Iranian reading^?	ğâfele
Tajik reading^?	qofila

Noun

قافِلِه • (qâfele) (plural قافله‌ها (qâfele-hâ))

convoy; caravan
Synonym: کارْوان (kârvân)
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:
  چون به قلزم رسد دو راه باشد یکی بر خشکی و یکی بر آب. آن چه به راه خشک می‌رود به پانزده روز به مکه رود و آن بیابانی است که سیصد فرسنگ باشد و بیشتر قافله مصر بدان راه رود
  čōn ba qulzum rasad du rāh bāšad yakē bar xuškī u yakē bar āb. ān či ba rāh-i xušk mē-rawad ba pānzdah rōz ba makka rawad w-ān biyābānē ast ki sēsad farsang bāšad u bēštar-i qāfila-yi misr bad-ān rāh rawad.
  When one arrives at Qulzum, there are two roads: one by land and one by water. One who goes by the land road reaches Mecca in fifteen days, and that is a desert three hundred parasangs wide. Most of the Egyptian caravans go by that road.

Descendants

→ Bengali: কাফেলা (kaphela)
→ Punjabi: kāflā, qāflā
Gurmukhi script: ਕਾਫ਼ਲਾ

Shahmukhi script: قافلہ
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: क़ाफ़िला (qāfilā)

Urdu: قافِلَہ (qāfila)

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