شہرت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شُهْرَت (šuhrat), from Arabic شُهْرَة (šuhra). First attested in c. 1688 as Middle Hindi شہرت (śhrt).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃʊɦ.ɾət̪/, [ʃoɦ.ɾət̪]
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: شُہ‧رَت

Noun

شُہْرَت • (śuhrat) f (Hindi spelling शोहरत)

1. fame, reputation; renown
2. notoriety

Declension

Declension of شہرت
	singular	plural
direct	شُہْرَت (śuhrat)	شُہْرَتیں (śuhratẽ)
oblique	شُہْرَت (śuhrat)	شُہْرَتوں (śuhratõ)
vocative	شُہْرَت (śuhrat)	شُہْرَتو (śuhrato)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ش ه ر (0 c, 3 e)

Further reading

More information

• “شہرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شہرت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شہرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شـﮩرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 824
• John Shakespear (1834) “شہرت”, 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