نافرمان

Persian

Etymology

From ناـ (nâ-) +‎ فَرمان (farmân).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nɑː.faɾ.ˈmɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɑː.fäɾ.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɑː.fäɾ.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɑː.fäɾ.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nɔː.fäɾ.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [nɒː.fæɹ.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nɔ.fäɾ.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	nāfarmān
Dari reading?	nāfarmān
Iranian reading?	nâfarmân
Tajik reading?	nofarmon

Adjective

Dari	نافرمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нофармон

نافَرمان • (nâfarmân) (comparative نافَرمان‌تَر (nâfarmân-tar), superlative نافَرمان‌تَرین (nâfarmân-tarin))

1. unruly

Descendants

• → Bengali: নাফরমান (naphroman)
• → Dogri: nāfarmān

  Devanagari script: नाफ़रमान

  Dogra script: 𑠝𑠬𑠟𑠺𑠤𑠢𑠬𑠝

• → Gujarati: નાફરમાન (nāpharmān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नाफ़रमान (nāfarmān)

  Urdu: نَافَرْمَان (nāfarmān)

• → Punjabi: nāfarmān

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਾਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ

  Shahmukhi script: نافرمان

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: نافرمان

  Devanagari script: नाफ़र्मान

  Khudawadi script: 𑋑𑋠𑋓𑋩𑋙𑋪𑋗𑋠𑋑 (nāfarmāna)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نافرمان (nāfarmān). By surface analysis, نَاـ (nā-) +‎ فَرْمَان (farmān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.fəɾ.mɑːn/
• Hyphenation: نَا‧فَرْ‧مَان
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Adjective

نَافَرْمَان • (nāfarmān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नाफ़रमान)

1. disobedient

Derived terms

• نَافَرْمَانِی (nāfarmānī, “disobedience”)

Further reading

• “نافرمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “nā-farmān”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1111
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 631
• “نافرمان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.