امرت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əm.ɾɪt̪/
• (colloquial, Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): /əm.ɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪, -ɪt̪
• Hyphenation: اَم‧رِت

Noun

اَمْرِت • (amrit) m (Hindi spelling अमृत)

1. nectar or elixir of life

Declension

Declension of امرت
	singular	plural
direct	اَمْرِت (amrit)	اَمْرِت (amrit)
oblique	اَمْرِت (amrit)	اَمْرِتوں (amritõ)
vocative	اَمْرِت (amrit)	اَمْرِتو (amrito)

Further reading

• “امرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “امرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امرت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “امرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “امرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “امرت”, 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