فضول

• IPA^(key): /fu.dˤuːl/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /fdˤuːl/

فُضُول • (fuḍūl) m

1. verbal noun of فَضَلَ (faḍala) (form I)
2. curiosity

فضول • (fozul)

1. nosy, prying

فضول • (fozul)

1. nosey parker

Borrowed from Classical Persian فُضُول (fuzūl), from Arabic فُضُول (fuḍūl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fʊ.zuːl/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [fɪ.zuːl], [fə.zuːl]
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Hyphenation: فُ‧ضُول

فُضُول • (fuzūl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़ज़ूल)

1. pointless; futile
   1. nonsense
   2. vulgar
2. useless; needless
3. redundant
4. excessive; extravagant

فُضُول • (fuzūl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ज़ूल)

1. excess, redundance

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• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فضول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “فضول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “فضول”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “فضول”, 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