فراق

Verbal noun of فَارَقَ (fāraqa).

• IPA^(key): /fi.raːq/
• Rhymes: -aːq

فِرَاق • (firāq) m

1. verbal noun of فَارَقَ (fāraqa) (form III)
2. parting, separation
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:78:

     قَالَ هَٰذَا فِرَاقُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنِكَ

     qāla hāḏā firāqu baynī wabaynika

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Ottoman Turkish: فراق (firak)
• → Persian: فراق (ferâq)
  • → Urdu: فراق (firāq)

Borrowed from Arabic فِرَاق (firāq).

فراق • (ferâq)

1. parting, separation

   Synonyms: جدایی (jodâyi), دوری (duri)

   Antonym: وصال (vesâl)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 62”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     میل من سویِ وصال و قصد او سویِ فراق
     تَرکِ کامِ خود گرفتم تا برآید کامِ دوست

     mayl-i man sōy-i wisāl u qasd-i ō sōy-i firāq
     tark-i kām-i xwad giriftam tā barāyad kām-i dōst

     My wish was to meet her, her intention was to leave me;
     I gave up that desire of mine, to make the beloved's desire come to pass.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “فراق”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian فِرَاق (firāq), borrowed from Arabic فِرَاق (firāq), from فَارَقَ (fāraqa). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi فراق (fraq /⁠firāq⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fɪ.ɾɑːq/
• Rhymes: -ɑːq
• Hyphenation: فِ‧راق

فِراق • (firāq) m (Hindi spelling फ़िराक़)

1. separation, parting

   Synonyms: جُدَائِی (judāī), ہِجْر (hijr), عَلَیحْدَگی ('alaihdagī), فُرْقَت (furqat)

2. (by extension) anxiety, grief, regret (on account of absence)

• “فراق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “فراق”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]