شرافت

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَرَافَت (šarāfat), from Arabic شَرَافَة (šarāfa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃə.ɾɑː.fət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: شَ‧را‧فَت

شَرافَت • (śarāfat) f (Hindi spelling शराफ़त)

1. civility; decency
2. courtesy, good manners
3. nobility, aristocracy

• “شرافت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شرافت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شرافت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 402
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شرافت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 724
• John Shakespear (1834) “شرافت”, 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
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شرافت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 815

From Urdu شَرافَت (śarāfat).

شرافت (šarāfat)

1. civility
2. decency
3. nobility
4. morality