اتفاقا

Adverbial accusative of اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq, “agreement”).

• IPA^(key): /it.ti.faː.qan/

اِتِّفَاقًا • (ittifāqan)

1. by mutual agreement

• → Azerbaijani: ittifaqən
• → Ottoman Turkish: اتفاقا (ittifâken)
  • Turkish: ittifaken
• → Persian: اتفاقا (ettefâqan)
  • → Urdu: اتفاقا
• → Uzbek: ittifoqan

Borrowed from Arabic اِتِّفَاقًا (ittifāqan).

اتفاقا • (ettefâqan)

1. accidentally, by chance
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “4:186”, in The Masnavi:

     خواست دختر را ببیند زیر دست، اتفاقا دختر اندر مکتبست

     xwāst duxtar-rā bibīnad zēr-i dast, ittifāqan duxtar andar maktab-ast

     She wished to privately meet with the girl, [but] as it so happens the girl is at the maktab

2. occasionally

• اتفاق (ettefâq, “chance, accident”)

• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: اتفاقاً (ittifāqan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اتفاقاً (ittifāqan), itself from Arabic اِتِّفَاقًا (ittifāqan).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪt̪.t̪ɪ.fɑː.qən/, [ɪt̪.t̪e.fɑː.qən], [-kən]
• Rhymes: -ən

اِتِّفاقاً • (ittifāqan) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling इत्तिफ़ाक़न)

1. incidental, by accident

اِتِّفاقاً • (ittifāqan) (Hindi spelling इत्तिफ़ाक़न)

1. incidentally, accidentally, coincidentally, by chance

• “اتفاقا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اتفاقا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اتفاق”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.