قافلہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قافله (qāfila), from Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qɑː.fɪ.lɑ(ː)/
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /qɑːf.lɑ(ː)/
  • Hyphenation: قا‧فِ‧لَہ

Noun

قافِلَہ • (qāfila) m (Hindi spelling क़ाफ़िला)

  1. convoy, motorcade
  2. caravan
    Synonym: کارواں (kārvāṉ)
  3. (figuratively) tribe, group

Declension
Declension of قافلہ
singular plural
direct قافِلہ (qāfilah) قافِلے (qāfile)
oblique قافِلے (qāfile) قافِلوں (qāfilõ)
vocative قافِلے (qāfile) قافِلو (qāfilo)

Further reading
  • “قافلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “قافلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قافلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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