फोकट

Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *फोक्क (phŏkka) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀝𑁆𑀝- (-ṭṭa-), from Dravidian. Cognate with Marathi फुकट (phukaṭ), Gujarati ફોગટ (phogaṭ), Bengali ফোকট (phōkoṭ).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /pʰoː.kəʈ/, [pʰoː.kɐʈ]

फोकट • (phokaṭ) (Urdu spelling پھوکٹ)

1. worthless, valueless
2. free, cheap

   Synonym: मुफ़्त (muft)

   नौकरी फोकट में थोड़ी मिलती है?

   naukrī phokaṭ mẽ thoṛī miltī hai?

   You don't just get a job for doing nothing.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “फोकट”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*pōka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press