# فارغ
## Arabic

* Root
* ف ر غ (f r ḡ)
* 15 terms

### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of فَرَغَ (faraḡa, “to become empty”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faː.riɣ/

### Adjective

فَارِغ • (fāriḡ) (feminine فَارِغَة (fāriḡa), masculine plural فُرَّاغ (furrāḡ), elative أَفْرَغ (ʔafraḡ))
* active participle of فَرَغَ or فَرِغَ (faraḡa or fariḡa).
* empty
    إِنَاء فَارِغ ― ʔināʔ fāriḡ ― an empty vessel
* inane, vacuous, useless
    كَلَام فَارِغ ― kalām fāriḡ ― idle talk

#### Synonyms

* (active participle): فَرِغ (fariḡ)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: fieragħ
* → Azerbaijani: fariğ
* → Persian: فارغ (fâreğ)
** → Gujarati: ફારગ (phārag)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: फ़ारिग़ (fāriġ)
    Urdu: فَارِغ (fāriġ)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਾਰਗ਼ (fāraġ)
    Shahmukhi script: فَارِغ (fāriġ)
* → Ottoman Turkish: فارغ (fâriğ)
** → Turkish: fariğ
* → Phalura: faaríɣ

### References

* ↑ Wehr, Hans (1979) “فارغ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN.

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَارِغ (fāriḡ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [fɑː.ˈɾiɣ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fɑː.ɾɪ́ɣ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fɑː.ɾɪ́ɣ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [fɑː.ɾɪ́ɣ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [fɔː.ɾíɣ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fɒː.ɹéɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [fɔ.ɾíʁ]

### Adjective

فارِغ • (fâreğ) (comparative فارِغ‌تَر (fâreğ-tar), superlative فارِغ‌تَرین (fâreğ-tarin))
* unencumbered, unburdened, free, unconcerned with
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 368:امتحان خود چو کردی ای فلان / فارغ آیی ز امتحان دیگرانemtehân-e xod čo kardi ey folân / fâreğ âyi z-emtehân-e digarânWhen you have made trial of yourself, o such-and-such, you will be unconcerned with making trial of others.
** 1973, Iraj Pezeshkzad, translated by Dick Davis, دایی جان ناپلئون [My Uncle Napoleon], Random House, →ISBN:حتی یک لحظه از یاد چشمهای لیلی و نگاه او نمی‌توانستم فارغ شوم […]hattâ yek lahze az yâd-e češm-hâ-ye leyli va negâh-e u ne-mi-tavânestam fâreğ šavam […] I couldn't get free of the memory of Layli’s eyes and of her gaze even for a moment […]
* (of a woman) having delivered

#### Derived terms

* فارِغ شُدَن (fâreğ šodan)
* فارِغ کَردَن (fâreğ kardan)

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: ફારગ (phārag)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: फ़ारिग़ (fāriġ)
    Urdu: فَارِغ (fāriġ)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਾਰਗ਼ (fāraġ)
    Shahmukhi script: فَارِغ (fāriġ)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فارغ (fāriğ), from Arabic فَارِغ (fāriḡ). Compare Punjabi فارَغ (fāraġ) / ਫ਼ਾਰਗ਼ (fāraġ), Gujarati ફારગ (phārag).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /fɑː.ɾɪɣ/
* Rhymes: -ɪɣ
* Hyphenation: فا‧رِغ

### Adjective

فارِغ • (fāriġ) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़ारिग़)
* free, unoccupied
* at leisure
* discharged, absolved
* (rare) empty
* (colloquial) fired (from a job)
* (slang) crap; useless

### Further reading

* “فارغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “فارغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فارغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “فارغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “فارغ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 865
* John Shakespear (1834) “فارغ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC