شعلہ

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla)bor.

Classical Persian شُعْلَه (šu'la)bor.

Urdu شُعْلَہ (śu'la)

Borrowed from Classical Persian شُعْلَه (šu'la), borrowed from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi شعلہ (ś'lh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃʊʕ.lɑ(ː)/, [ʃoː.lɑ(ː)]
• Hyphenation: شُعْ‧لَہ
• Homophones: شولہ (śola), شولا (śolā)

Noun

شُعْلَہ • (śu'la) m (Hindi spelling शोला)

1. a flame; blaze (of fire)

   Synonyms: جَلْوَہ (jalva), آنْچ (ānc), لَو (lau)

   • c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea]‎^[1] (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:

     یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں

     yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ

     It is true that to [try and] save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task

2. (figuratively) fury

Declension

Declension of شعلہ

	singular	plural
direct	شُعْلَہ (śuʻlah)	شُعْلے (śuʻle)
oblique	شُعْلے (śuʻle)	شُعْلوں (śuʻlõ)
vocative	شُعْلے (śuʻle)	شُعْلو (śuʻlo)

Further reading

• “شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شعله”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 728
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شعله”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 818
• John Shakespear (1834) “شعله”, 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