فریب

From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyp /⁠frēb⁠/, “deceit, deception”), from Proto-Iranian *fra- (“toward”, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-) + *dab (“to deceive”, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to deceive; to harm”)).

فریب • (farêb or ferib or farib)

1. deception; deceit; perfidy

   Synonyms: نیرنگ (neyrang), خدعه (xod'e), مکر (makr)

   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 6”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎^[1]:

     مژهٔ سیاهت ار کرد به خون ما اشارت
     ز فریب او بیندیش و غلط مکن نگارا

     muža-yi sîyâh-at ar kard ba xûn-i mâ išârat
     zi firêb-i ô biyandêš u ġalat ma-kun nigâr-â

     If [the arrow of] your black eyebrow should aim for my blood,
     Consider its perfidy [i.e. the speaker hopes the eyebrow is “deceitful” and does not reflect the beloved’s real attitude towards him], and make no error, my love.

     (romanization in Classical Persian)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: फ़रेब (fareb)

  Urdu: فریب (fareb)

فریب • (farib or ferib)

1. present stem form of فریفتن (fariftan, feriftan, “to deceive”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian فریب (fareb, firēb). First attested in c. 1692 as Middle Hindi فریب (fryb).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.ɾeːb/
• Rhymes: -eːb
• Hyphenation: فَ‧ریب

فَریب • (fareb) m (Hindi spelling फ़रेब)

1. deceit, deception

   Synonyms: دھوکَہ (dhoka), دَغا (daġā)

2. (in compounds) used a suffix to indicate temptation

• “فریب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “فریب”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]