انکار

See also: انگار, إنكار, and انكار

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْكَار (ʔinkār).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔin.ˈkaːɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪŋ.kʰɑːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪŋ.kʰɑːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔiŋ.kʰɔːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔeŋ.kʰɒːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiŋ.kʰɔɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	inkār
Dari reading^?	inkār
Iranian reading^?	enkâr
Tajik reading^?	inkor

Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun

انکار • (enkâr)

denial

Derived terms

انکار کردن (enkâr kardan)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (inkār), from Arabic إِنْكَار (ʔinkār).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪn.kɑːɾ/
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
Hyphenation: اِن‧کار

Noun

اِنْکار • (inkār) m (Hindi spelling इनकार)

Declension

Declension of **انکار**
	singular	plural
direct	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکار (inkār)
oblique	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکاروں (inkārõ)
vocative	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکارو (inkāro)

Related terms

اِنْکار کَرْنا (inkār karnā, “to reject”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ن ك ر (0 c, 2 e)

Further reading

“انکار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“انکار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “انکار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884) “انکار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِن؟کار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 157
John Shakespear (1834) “انکار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC