مشاہدہ

Urdu

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Arabic شَاهَدَ (šāhada)

Arabic مُشَاهَدَة (mušāhada)bor.

Classical Persian مُشَاهِدَه (mušāhida)bor.

Urdu مُشَاہِدَہ (muśāhida)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُشَاهِدَه (mušāhida), borrowed from Arabic مُشَاهَدَة (mušāhada), from شَاهَدَ (šāhada).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.ʃɑː.ɦɪ.d̪ɑ(ː)/, /mʊ.ʃɑː.ɦə.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Syllabification: مُ‧شَا‧ہِ‧دَہ

Noun

مُشَاہِدَہ or مُشَاہَدَہ • (muśāhida or muśāhada) m (formal plural مُشَاہِدَات (muśāhidāt), Hindi spelling मुशाहिदा or मुशाहदा)

1. observation

   Synonym: مُعَائِنَہ (mu'āina)

2. witnessing; beholding
3. contemplation
4. (obsolete) sight; vision

Declension

Declension of مشاہدہ

	singular	plural
direct	مُشَاہِدَہ (muśāhidah)	مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide)
oblique	مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide)	مُشَاہِدوں (muśāhidõ)
vocative	مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide)	مُشَاہِدو (muśāhido)

Derived terms

• مُشَاہِدَہ کَار (muśāhida kār, “observer”)
• مُشَاہِدَہ کَرْنا (muśāhida karnā, “to observe”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ش ه د (0 c, 3 e)

Further reading

• “مشاہدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مشاہدہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مشاہده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 589
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مشاهده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1037
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مشاﮩده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1098
• John Shakespear (1834) “مشاهده”, 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