قصبہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قصبه (qasba), from Arabic قَصْبَة (qaṣba).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qəs.bɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: قَص‧بَہ

Noun

قَصْبَہ • (qasba) m (formal plural قَصْبات (qasbāt), Hindi spelling क़स्बा)

1. town
2. (anatomy) trachea

Declension

Declension of قصبہ
	singular	plural
direct	قَصْبَہ (qaṣbah)	قَصْبے (qaṣbe)
oblique	قَصْبے (qaṣbe)	قَصْبوں (qaṣbõ)
vocative	قَصْبے (qaṣbe)	قَصْبو (qaṣbo)

Further reading

• “قصبہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قصبہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قصبہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.