मुफ़लिसी
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مفلسی (muflisī). By surface analysis, मुफ़लिस (muflis, “poor”) + -ई (-ī).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /mʊf.lɪ.siː/, /mʊpʰ.lɪ.siː/
Noun
मुफ़लिसी • (muflisī) f (Urdu spelling مُفْلِسِی)
- bankruptcy
- Synonyms: (figuratively, by extension) सत्यानाश (satyānāś), दिवालियापन (divāliyāpan), दिवाला (divālā)
- poverty
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ग़रीबी
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| direct | मुफ़लिसी muflisī |
| oblique | मुफ़लिसी muflisī |
| vocative | मुफ़लिसी muflisī |
Further reading
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मुफलिसी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3970
- Platts, John T. (1884) “muflisī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1053
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “mufalisī”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 823
- “मुफ़्लिसी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.