رشوت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian رِشْوَه (rišwa), from Arabic رِشْوَة (rišwa). First attested in c. 1654 as Middle Hindi رشوت (rśvt).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɪʃ.ʋət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: رِشْ‧وَت

Noun

رِشْوَت • (riśvat) f (Hindi spelling रिश्वत)

1. bribe

Declension

Declension of رشوت
	singular	plural
direct	رِشْوَت (riśvat)	رِشْوَتیں (riśvatẽ)
oblique	رِشْوَت (riśvat)	رِشْوَتوں (riśvatõ)
vocative	رِشْوَت (riśvat)	رِشْوَتو (riśvato)

Related terms

• رِشْوَت خور (riśvat xor)
• رِشْوَت خوری f (riśvat xorī)

 

Further reading

More information

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

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu رشوت (rišvat).

Noun

رشوت (rišvat)

1. bribe