معافی

From مُعَاف (mo'âf) +‎ ـِی (-i)

معافی • (mo'âfi)

1. exemption
2. immunity
3. forgiveness

• معافیت (mo'âfiyyat)

• معاف (mo'âf)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُعَافِی (mu'āfī).

معافی • (māfī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਾਫ਼ੀ)

1. forgiveness

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُعَافِی (mu'āfī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.(ʔ)ɑː.fiː/, [mʊɑ̯ː.fiː]
• (Punjabic Urdu, Delhi Urdu) IPA^(key): [mɑː.fiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مُ‧عا‧فی

مُعَافی • (mu'āfī) f (Hindi spelling माफ़ी)

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

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• 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
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