فکر

From Arabic فِكْر‎ (fikr).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /fikɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /fɪkɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /fekɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /fikɾ/
• IPA^(key): /fek/ (colloquial)

فکر • (fekr) (plural افکار‎ (afkâr) or فکرها‎ (fekr-hâ))

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• فکری‎ (fekri)
• فکر کردن‎ (fekr kardan)

• → Bengali: ফিকির (fikir)
• → Gujarati: ફિકર (phikar)
• → Old Hindi: फिकरि (phikari)
  • Hindustani: fikr

    Hindi: फ़िक्र

    Urdu: فِکْر‎

• → Marathi: फिकीर (phikīr)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਿਕਰ (fikar)

  Shahmukhi script: فِکر‎ (fikr)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: فِڪرُ‎

  Devanagari script: फ़िकिरु

Borrowed from Persian فکر‎ (fekr), from Arabic فِكْر‎ (fikr). First attested as Old Hindi फिकरि (phikari).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fɪkɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /fɪkɾ/

فِکْر • (fikr) f (Hindi spelling फ़िक्र)

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   Synonym: چِنْتا‎ (cintā)

• “فکر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “فِکْر”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “فکر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “فکر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.