الہام

See also: إلهام and الهام

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic أَلْهَمَ (ʔalhama)

Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām)bor.

Classical Persian اِلْهَام (ilhām)bor.

Urdu اِلْہَام (ilhām)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِلْهَام (ilhām), borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām), from أَلْهَمَ (ʔalhama). First attested in c. 1657 as Middle Hindi الہام (alham /⁠ilhām⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪl.ɦɑːm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: اِل‧ہام

Noun

اِلْہَام • (ilhām) m (Hindi spelling इलहाम)

1. (religion) revelation
2. intuition; or occurrence.

Declension

Declension of الہام
	singular	plural
direct	اِلْہَام (ilhām)	اِلْہَام (ilhām)
oblique	اِلْہَام (ilhām)	اِلْہَاموں (ilhāmõ)
vocative	اِلْہَام (ilhām)	اِلْہَامو (ilhāmo)

Further reading

• “الہام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “الہام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “الہام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِلـﮩـام”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 133
• John Shakespear (1834) “الهام”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 133