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مدہوش

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian مَدْهوش (madhōš). By surface analysis, مَد (mad) +‎ ہوش (hoś).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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مَدْہوش (madhoś) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मदहोश)

  1. intoxicated
  2. senseless

Further reading

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  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “مدہوش”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1086
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “مدہوش”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1017
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مدہوش”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 577
  • مدہوش”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • مدہوش”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.