شلیہ
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शल्य (śalya, “spear; javelin; arrow”).
Distantly related to Ancient Greek κῆλον (kêlon, “shafts (of arrows)”), Old Prussian kelian (“spear”), Old Norse hali, Albanian thel.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃəl.jɑ(ː)/
Proper noun
[edit]شلیہ • (śalya) m (Hindi spelling शल्य)
- Shalya, the legendary king of Madra (in north-central Punjab whose capital was Sialkot) and the Indus in the Mahabharata, who led the Kaurava army against the Pandava usurpers in the east
- ہمارے کشور کے لیے زیادہ سے زیادہ راجہ شلیہ جیسے مرد ہونے چاہئیں ہے
- hamāre kiśvar ke liye zyāda se zyāda rāja śalya jaise mard hone cāh'ī̃ he
- let there be many men like king Shalya for our fatherland
- کس کی فرہ ہمارے شہنشاہ شلیہ سے بہترین ہے
- kis kī farrah hamāre śehanśāh śalya se behtarīn hai?
- whose glory is greater than our king of kings, Shalya?
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “شلیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شلیہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “شلیہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “شلیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.