شیشہ

See also: شیشه, and شيشة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شیشه (šīša), from Middle Persian. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi شیشہ (śyśh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃiː.ʃɑ(ː)/

Noun

شِیشَہ • (śīśa) m (Hindi spelling शीशा)

1. glass
2. window; pane

   Synonym: کِھڑْکی (khiṛkī)

3. mirror

   Synonym: آئینہ (ā'īna)

4. (by extension automotive) windscreen; windshield; window
5. glass bottle

   Synonym: بوتل (botal) (any bottle)

6. eyepiece; lens; eyeglasses

   Synonym: عَینَک (’ainak)

7. (figuratively) heart
8. hookah

   Synonym: حُقَّہ (huqqa)

Declension

Declension of شیشہ
	singular	plural
direct	شِیشَہ (śīśah)	شِیشے (śīśe)
oblique	شِیشے (śīśe)	شِیشوں (śīśõ)
vocative	شِیشے (śīśe)	شِیشو (śīśo)

Derived terms

• شیشی (śīśī)

Further reading

• “شیشہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شيشہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شيشه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 740
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شيشه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 826
• John Shakespear (1834) “شيشه”, 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