مشکوک

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَشْکُوک (maškūk), Arabic مَشْكُوك (maškūk).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʃ.kuːk/
• Rhymes: -uːk
• Hyphenation: مَش‧کُوک

Adjective

مَشْکُوک • (maśkūk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मशकूक)

1. doubtful; dubious
2. ambiguous; unclear
3. suspect (of a person)

Further reading

• “مشکوک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مشکوک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “مشکوک”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]