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لحظہ

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Urdu

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Arabic لَحْظَة (laḥẓa)bor.
    Classical Persian لَحْظَه (lahza)bor.
    Urdu لَحْظَہ (lahza)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian لَحْظَه (lahza), borrowed from Arabic لَحْظَة (laḥẓa).[1] First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi لحظہ (lḥz̤h).[2]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    لَحْظَہ • (lahza) m (Hindi spelling लहज़ा)

    1. moment, instant
      Synonyms: پَل (pal), لَمْحَہ (lamha)
      • c. 1900, علامہ اقبال [Allama Iqbal], مردِ مسلمان‎[1]:
        ہر لحظہ ہے مومن کی نئی شان، نئی آن
        har laḥz̤a hai momin kī nay'ī śān, nay'ī ān
        Every moment is a glory, a splendour for a believer
    2. a look; glance[1][3]

    Declension

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        Declension of لحظہ
    singular plural
    direct لَحْظَہ (lahzah) لَحْظے (lahze)
    oblique لَحْظے (lahze) لَحْظوں (lahzõ)
    vocative لَحْظے (lahze) لَحْظو (lahzo)

    References

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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Platts, John T. (1884) “لحظه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 954
    2. ^ “لحظہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    3. ^ John Shakespear (1834) “لحظه”, 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

    Further reading

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    • “لحظہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لحظہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “لحظه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1042
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