وفا

Borrowed from Arabic وَفَاء (wafāʔ).

وفا • (vafâ)

1. loyalty; fidelity; constance

   Synonyms: وفاداری (vafâdâri), صداقت (sadâqat)

   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:

     خز این قدر نتوان گفت در جمال تو عیب
     که وضع مهر وفا نیست روی زیبا را

     joz in qadar na-tavân goft dar jamâl-e to 'eyb
     ke vaz'-e mehr o vafâ nist ru-ye zibâ râ

     One cannot speak of any blemish in your charms, save this much; neither affection nor constancy is there on your beautiful face.

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: वफ़ा (vafā)

  Urdu: وَفَا (vafā)

وفا • (vafâ)

1. a surname, Vafa or Vafo

Borrowed from Classical Persian وَفَا (wafā), borrowed from Arabic وَفَاء (wafāʔ), from وَفَى (wafā). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi وفا (vfa /⁠vafā⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋə.fɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: وَ‧فا

وَفا • (vafā) f (Hindi spelling वफ़ा)

1. loyalty
2. fidelity

• وَفا کَرْنا (vafā karnā)
• وَفَادَار (vafādār)

وَفا • (vafā) f (Hindi spelling वफ़ा)

1. a female given name from Arabic

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