ذو الفقار

See also: ذوالفقار

Arabic

Alternative forms

• ذُوٱلْفَقَار (ḏū-l-faqār) — misspelling

Etymology

From ذُو (ḏū, “possessor of, having”) +‎ الـ (al-, “the”) +‎ فَقَار (faqār, “vertebrae, spine”), variously interpreted as being a notched-sword, as “the spine-cleaver”, or as “the one having the ability to dice into pieces” like the segmentation of a vertebra.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ðu‿l.fa.qaːr/
• (non-standard, but very common) IPA^(key): /ðu‿l.fi.qaːr/

• Audio (nonstandard pronunciation):

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Proper noun

ذُو الْفَقَار • (ḏū l-faqār) m

1. (Islam) A famous mythical weapon of Ali ibn Abi Talib, previously belonging to Muhammad.
2. a male given name enjoying greater popularity among Shi'a Muslims.
3. a surname

Declension

Declension of noun ذُو الْفَقَار (ḏū l-faqār)

Singular	singular long construct
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	ذُو الْفَقَار ḏū l-faqār	—
Nominative	—	ذُو الْفَقَارِ ḏū l-faqāri	—
Accusative	—	ذَا الْفَقَارِ ḏā l-faqāri	—
Genitive	—	ذِي الْفَقَارِ ḏī l-faqāri	—

Descendants

• → English: Zulfikar, Zulfiqar (common romanizations)
• → Bengali: যুলফিকার (zulfiqar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ज़ुल्फ़िक़ार (zulfiqār)

  Urdu: ذوالفقار (zulfiqār)

• → Persian: ذوالفقار (zulfaqâr)
• → Turkish: Zülfikar

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “فقر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2425-2427