صداقت
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَدَاقَة (ṣadāqa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /sa.daː.ˈqat/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.d̪ɑː.qät̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [se.d̪ɒː.ʁæt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.d̪ɔ.qät̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sadāqat |
| Dari reading? | sadāqat |
| Iranian reading? | sedâġat |
| Tajik reading? | sadoqat |
Noun
صداقت • (sadāqat / sedâġat) (Tajik spelling садоқат)
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صداقت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “صداقت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian صَداقَت, from Arabic صَدَاقَة (ṣadāqa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sə.d̪ɑː.qət̪/
- Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: صَ‧دا‧قَت
Noun
صَداقَت • (sadāqat) f (Hindi spelling सदाक़त)
- the truth
- Synonym: سَچائِی (sacāī)
- truthfulness; honesty; sincerity
- friendship
- loyalty; fidelity
- authenticity
- testimony; proof
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | صَداقَت (sadāqat) | صَداقَتیں (sadāqatẽ) |
| oblique | صَداقَت (sadāqat) | صَداقَتوں (sadāqatõ) |
| vocative | صَداقَت (sadāqat) | صَداقَتو (sadāqato) |
Further reading
More information
- “صداقت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “صداقت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صداقت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “صداقت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “صداقت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “صداقت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC