# تغافل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* غ ف ل (ḡ f l)
* 4 terms

#### Pronunciation

* Verb: IPA: /ta.ɣaː.fa.la/
* Noun: IPA: /ta.ɣaː.ful/

#### Verb

تَغَافَلَ • (taḡāfala) VI (non-past يَتَغَافَلُ (yataḡāfalu), verbal noun تَغَافُل (taḡāful))
* to feign negligence
* to neglect

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

تَغَافُل • (taḡāful) m
* verbal noun of تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) (form VI)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: təğafül
* → Chagatai: تغافل
** Uzbek: tagʻofil
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: तग़ाफ़ुल (taġāful)
** Urdu: تغافل
* → Ottoman Turkish: تغافل (tegafül)
** Turkish: tegafül
* → Pashto: تغافل
* → Persian: تغافل (tağâfol)

#### Further reading

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تغافل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “تغافل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

تغافل (form III)
* تُغَافِلُ (tuḡāfilu) /tu.ɣaː.fi.lu/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
** third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
* تُغَافَلُ (tuḡāfalu) /tu.ɣaː.fa.lu/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
* تُغَافِلَ (tuḡāfila) /tu.ɣaː.fi.la/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
* تُغَافَلَ (tuḡāfala) /tu.ɣaː.fa.la/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
* تُغَافِلْ (tuḡāfil) /tu.ɣaː.fil/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
* تُغَافَلْ (tuḡāfal) /tu.ɣaː.fal/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

### Noun

تغافل • (tegafül)
* a being unmindful and careless
* a pretending to be unmindful

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tegafül

### Further reading

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تغافل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 566

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

### Noun

تغافل • (taǧāfúl) m
* negligence

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ta.ɣɑː.ful]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɣɑː.fʊl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɣɑː.fʊl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɣɑː.fʊl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɣɔː.ful̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰæ.ɢɒː.fol̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ʁɔ.ful]

### Noun

| Dari | تغافل |
| Iranian Persian | تغافل |
| Tajik | тағофул |
تغافل • (tağâfol)
* feigning negligence
* negligence

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تغافل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تغافل”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

## Urdu
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t̪ə.ɣɑː.fʊl/
* Rhymes: -ʊl

### Noun

تَغافُل • (taġāful) m (Hindi spelling तग़ाफ़ुल)
* unmindfulness, heedlessness, forgetfulness, neglect, negligence, inattention, inadvertence, indifference, listlessness
    Synonym: غفلت

#### Derived terms

* تغافل کرنا

#### Related terms

* تغافل شعار
* تغافل شعاری
* تغافل کیش

### Further reading

* “تغافل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “تغافل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “تغافل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.