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دلہن

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Feminine of دُلْہا (dulhā, bridegroom).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دُلْہَن (dulhanf (Hindi spelling दुल्हन)

  1. bride
  2. daughter-in-law (son's wife)
  3. (figuratively) daughter

Declension

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    Declension of دلہن
singular plural
direct دُلْہَن (dulhan) دُلْہَنیں (dulhanẽ)
oblique دُلْہَن (dulhan) دُلْہَنوں (dulhanõ)
vocative دُلْہَن (dulhan) دُلْہَنو (dulhano)

Further reading

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  • دلہن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • دلہن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دلہن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 312
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “دلہن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 524
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “داﮩن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 636
  • John Shakespear (1834) “دلـﮩ‍ن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “durlabha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 368