سسرال
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Urdu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- سُسْرَار (susrār)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit श्वशुरघर (śvaśuraghara), compound of श्वशुर (śvaśura, “father-in-law”) + घर (ghara, “house”), literally “father-in-law's house”.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sʊs.ɾɑːl/
- Rhymes: -ɑːl
- Hyphenation: سُس‧رال
Noun
[edit]سُسْرَال • (susrāl) m (Hindi spelling ससुराल)
- father-in-laws (ie. in-laws)
- (by extension) their house
- (figuratively) prison; a confined place[2][3]
Declension
[edit]| Declension of سسرال | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | سسرال (susrāl) | سسرال (susrāl) | ||||||
| oblique | سسرال (susrāl) | سسرالوں (susrālõ) | ||||||
| vocative | سسرال (susrāl) | سسرالو (susrālo) | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śvaśuraghara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 739
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “سسرال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- ^ Farhang-i-Asifiya
Further reading
[edit]More information
- “سسرال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “سسرال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سسر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “سسرال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “سسرال”, 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