فکر

See also: فكر

Persian

Alternative forms

• فک (fek) (dialectal, Tehrani)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِكْر (fikr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fikɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fɪkɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fɪkɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fɪkɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fikɾ]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fekʲɹ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fekʲɹ]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [fekʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fikɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	fikr
Dari reading?	fikr
Iranian reading?	fekr
Tajik reading?	fikr

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	فکر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	фикр

فکر • (fekr) (plural افکار (afkâr) or فکرها (fekr-hâ))

1. thought

Related terms

• فکری (fekri)
• فکر کردن (fekr kardan)

Descendants

• Dari: فِکْر (fikr)
• Iranian Persian: فِکْر (fekr)
• Tajik: фикр (fikr)
• → Bengali: ফিকির (fikir)
• → Gujarati: ફિકર (phikar)
• → Old Hindi: फिकरि (phikari)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: फ़िक्र (fikr), फ़िकर (fikar)

    Urdu: فِکْر (fikr)

• → Marathi: फिकीर (phikīr)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਿਕਰ (fikar)

  Shahmukhi script: فِکر (fikr)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: فِڪرُ

  Devanagari script: फ़िकिरु

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فِکْر (fikr), from Arabic فِكْر (fikr). First attested as Old Hindi फिकरि (phikari).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fɪkɾ/

Noun

فِکْر • (fikr) f (Hindi spelling फ़िक्र)

1. concern

   Synonym: چِنْتا (cintā)

Declension

Declension of فکر
	singular	plural
direct	فِکْر (fikr)	فِکْریں (fikrẽ)
oblique	فِکْر (fikr)	فِکْروں (fikrõ)
vocative	فِکْر (fikr)	فِکْرو (fikro)

Further reading

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