فانی

See also: فاني

Persian

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Arabic فَانٍ (fānin).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? fānī
    Dari reading? fānī
    Iranian reading? fâni
    Tajik reading? foni

    Adjective

    فانی • (fānī / fâni) (Tajik spelling фонӣ)

    1. mortal, perishable
    2. transient, transitory, ephemeral

    Proper noun

    فانی • (fâni)

    1. a surname from Arabic

    Etymology 2

    Borrowed from English Fanny.

    Proper noun

    فانی • (fâni)

    1. a female given name, Fanny, from English

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian فَانِی (fānī), borrowed from Arabic فَانٍ (fānin), from فَنِيَ (faniya), from Proto-Semitic *pan-. First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi فانی (fany /⁠fānī⁠/).[1]

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      فَانِی • (fānī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़ानी)

      1. mortal; perishable
        Antonyms: جاوِدانی (jāvidānī), غَیر فانی (ġair fānī), (of God) قَدِیم (qadīm)

      Derived terms

      • جَہانِ فانی (jahān-i fānī, the mortal life)

      References

      1. ^ فانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

      • فانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “فانی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
      • Platts, John T. (1884), “فانی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
      • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “فانی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
      • John Shakespear (1834), “فانی”, 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