فرشتہ
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See also: فرشته
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian فِرِشْتَه (firišta). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi فرشتہ (frśth /firiśta/).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fə.ɾɪʃ.t̪ɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: فَِ‧رِشْ‧تَہ
Noun
[edit]فَرِشْتَہ • (fariśta) m (formal plural فِرِشْتَگان (firiśtagān), Hindi spelling फ़रिश्ता)
- angel
- Synonym: مَلَک (malak)
- (by extension) a messenger, apostle
- (figuratively) a pure-hearted, selfless person.
- (figuratively) a saviour from God in the form of an angel
Declension
[edit]Declension of فرشتہ | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | فَرِشْتَہ (fariśtah) | فَرِشْتے (fariśte) | ||||||
oblique | فَرِشْتے (fariśte) | فَرِشْتوں (fariśtõ) | ||||||
vocative | فَرِشْتے (fariśte) | فَرِشْتو (fariśto) |
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “فرشتہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فرشتہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “فرشته”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “فرشته”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “فرشته”, 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
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