درجہ

See also: درجه and درجة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَرَجَه (daraja, “degree, pitch, level”), from Arabic دَرَجَة (daraja).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾ.d͡ʒɑː/

Noun

دَرْجَہ • (darja) m (formal plural درجات, Hindi spelling दर्जा)

1. level, extent, rate
2. status, social status, rank

   Synonym: رُتْبَہ (rutbā)

3. kind, category, division, class
4. (geometry) angle

   Synonym: زاوِیَہ (zāviya)

5. (physics) degree
6. (physics, of temperature) degree (a unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius)

Declension

Declension of درجہ

	singular	plural
direct	دَرْجَہ (darjah)	دَرْجے (darje)
oblique	دَرْجے (darje)	دَرْجوں (darjõ)
vocative	دَرْجے (darje)	دَرْجو (darjo)

Related terms

• درجہ حرارت (darja-e-harārat, “temperature”)

References

• “درجہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “درجہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.