# مفتوح
## Arabic
### Etymology

* Root
* ف ت ح (f t ḥ)
* 18 terms
Derived from the passive participle of فَتَحَ (fataḥa, “to open”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maf.tuːħ/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

مَفْتُوح • (maftūḥ) (feminine مَفْتُوحَة (maftūḥa), masculine plural مَفْتُوحُونَ (maftūḥūna), feminine plural مَفْتُوحَات (maftūḥāt))
* open
    Antonym: مُغْلَق (muḡlaq)
* (grammar) followed by the vowel sign fatḥa
    Hypernym: مُعْجَم (muʕjam)
    Coordinate terms: مَكْسُور (maksūr), مَضْمُوم (maḍmūm)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* մէֆթուհ (meftuh) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَفْتُوح (maftūḥ, “open”).

### Adjective

مفتوح • (meftuh)
* open, able to be accessed, not closed
    Synonyms: آچلمش (açılmış), آچق (açık), باز (baz)
* (of a country) captured, conquered
* explained, revealed, manifest, unfolded

#### Descendants

* Turkish: meftuh

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meftuh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3110
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مفتوح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1201
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apertus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 70
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مفتوح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4807
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مفتوح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1931

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَفْتُوح (maftūḥ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maf.ˈtuːh]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäf.t̪ʰúːʱ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäf.t̪ʰúːʱ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäf.t̪ʰúː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäf.t̪ʰú]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæf.t̪ʰúːʰ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäf.t̪ʰɵ́ʰ]

### Adjective

مفتوح • (maftuh) (formal)
* open, opened
    Synonyms: باز شده (bâz šode), گشایش یافته (gošâyeš yâfte)
** 2024 May 12, “«چرا شما را نمی‌گیرن؟»؛ صادق زیباکلام زندانی شد”, in bbc.com/persian‎, BBC Persian:آقای زیباکلام سه پرونده قضائی مفتوح داشت. اتهام او در پرونده اول و دوم «فعالیت تبلیغی علیه نظام» و در پرونده سوم، «نشر مطالب خلاف واقع» بود.âqâ-ye zibâkalâm se parvande-ye qazâ'i-ye maftuh dâšt. ettehâm-e u dar parvande-ye avval o dovvom "fa'âliyat-e tabliği aleyh-e nezâm" va dar parvande-ye sevvom, "našr-e matâleb-e xelâf-e vâqe'" bud.Mr. Zibakalam had three open legal cases. In the first and second cases, he was accused of "propaganda activity against the system," and in the third, of "dissemination of topics contrary to fact."
* conquered, subjugated
    Synonym: فتح شده (fath šode)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مفتوح”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ف ت ح
* 5 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic مَفْتُوح (maftūḥ). Equivalent to the passive participle of فتح (fataḥ, “to open”) .

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maf.tuːħ/, [mafˈtuːħ]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Adjective

مفتوح • (maftūḥ) (feminine مفتوحة (maftūḥa))
* open (of an object)
    Antonym: مسكّر (msakkar)

#### See also

* فاتح (fāteḥ, “open (shop, business etc.)”)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مفتوح (maftūḥ), from Arabic مَفْتُوح (maftūḥ).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /məf.t̪uː(ɦ)/
* Rhymes: -uːɦ
* Hyphenation: مَف‧تُوح

### Adjective

مَفْتُوح • (maftūh) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मफ़्तूह)
* conquered; captured (related to فَتْح (fath))
* (formal) open (of a door etc.)
    Synonym: کُھلا (khulā)
** 1899, رویائے صادقہ [A Fulfilled Vision]‎, page 210:کل دُنیاوی ترقیوں کے دروازے ہمارے لئے مفتوح تھے۔kal dunyāvī taraqqiyõ ke darvāze hamāre liye maftūh the.Yesterday, the gates to the materialistic advancements were open for us.
* (grammar) followed by a fatha
* (figurative) naked

#### See also
### Further reading

* “مفتوح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “مفتوح”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “مفتوح”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]