معافی

Persian

Etymology

    From مُعَاف (mo'âf) +‎ ـِی (-i)

    Noun

    Dari معافی
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik муъофӣ, муофӣ

    معافی • (mo'âfi)

    1. exemption
    2. immunity
    3. forgiveness

    Synonyms

    • معافیت (mo'âfiyyat)

    Descendants

    • Hindi: माफ़ी (māfī)
    • Marathi: माफी (māphī)
    • Punjabi: معافی (mu'āfī, māfī) / ਮਾਫ਼ੀ (māfī)
    • Urdu: معافی (mu'āfī, māfī)

    Punjabi

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian مُعَافِی (mu'āfī).

      Noun

      معافی • (māfīf (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਾਫ਼ੀ)

      1. forgiveness

      Urdu

      Etymology

        Borrowed from Classical Persian مُعَافِی (mu'āfī).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        مُعَافی • (mu'āfīf (Hindi spelling माफ़ी)

        1. forgiveness
        2. pardon; absolvement
        3. exemption; remission

        Declension

        Declension of معافی
        singular plural
        direct مُعَافی (mu'āfī) مُعَافِیاں (mu'āfiyā̃)
        oblique مُعَافی (mu'āfī) مُعَافِیوں (mu'āfiyō̃)
        vocative مُعَافی (mu'āfī) مُعَافِیو (mu'āfiyō)

        See also

        Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ع ف و (0 c, 5 e)

        Further reading

        • معافی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
        • معافی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
        • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “معاف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 595
        • Platts, John T. (1884), “معافي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1046
        • S. W. Fallon (1879), “معافی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
        • John Shakespear (1834), “معافی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC