تودہ
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Persian توده (tōda, “heap, pile; mass”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪oː.d̪ᵊ/, /t̪uː.d̪ᵊ/
Noun
[edit]تُودہ or تودہ • (tūda or toda) m (Hindi spelling तोदा or तूदा)
- mound, heap, pile; stack
- ہم تودہ پر چڑھ گئے
- ham tūda par caṛh ga'e
- we climbed up the mound
- boundary, limit
- یہ ہمارے گاؤں کا ٹوڈا ہے
- ye hamare ga'õ kā tūda he
- this is the boundary of our village
- crowd, mob, gathering
- تودہ گلیوں میں جمع ہو گیا
- tūda galīyõ mẽ jama' ho gyā
- a crowd has gathered in the streets
- an earthen mound used to fire ranged weapons behind
- ساتھی تودہ پر تفنگ چاؤ
- sāthī, tūda par tufang cala'o!
- comrade, fire the gun from the mound!
Derived terms
[edit]- تودَۂِ خاک (tōda-e-xāk, “heap of earth; corpse”)
- تُودَہ بَندی (tōda-bandī)
- خاک تُودَہ (xāk-tōda, “heap of earth”)
References
[edit]- “تودہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تودہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “تودہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “تودہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.