الہام

See also: إلهام and الهام

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian الهام (ilhām, “inspiration”), itself from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: اِل‧ہام

Noun

الہام • (ilhām) m (Hindi spelling इलहाम)

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

Declension

Declension of الہام
	singular	plural
direct	الہام (ilhām)	الہام (ilhām)
oblique	الہام (ilhām)	الہاموں (ilhāmõ)
vocative	الہام (ilhām)	الہامو (ilhāmo)

Further reading

• “الہام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “الہام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “الہام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.