Persian

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Etymology

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From ناـ (nâ-) +‎ فَرمان (farmân).

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

Adjective

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Dari نافرمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik нофармон

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

  1. unruly

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Urdu

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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نَافَرْمَان (nāfarmān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नाफ़रमान)

  1. disobedient

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Further reading

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  • 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.