محفل

From the root ح ف ل‎ (ḥ-f-l). Compare Arabic حَفَلَ‎ (ḥafala, “to gather, assemble”)

مَحْفِل • (maḥfil) m

1. assembly
2. congregation
3. gathering

• → English: mehfil
• → Persian: محفل‎
• → Hindi: महफ़िल (mahfil)
• → Urdu: محفل‎

From Arabic مَحْفِل‎ (maḥfil, “assembly, congregation”), from the root ح ف ل‎ (ḥ-f-l)

محفل • (mahfel)

1. circle
2. coterie
3. assembly

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “محفل”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “محفل”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

From Arabic مَحْفِل‎ (maḥfil, “assembly, congregation”), from the root ح ف ل‎ (ḥ-f-l)

محفل • (mahfil) m (Hindi spelling महफ़िल)

1. assembly
2. congregation
3. gathering

• John T. Platts (accessed 09-11-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎