مشہد

See also: مشهد

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْهَد (mašhad).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʃ.ɦəd̪/
• Rhymes: -əd̪
• Hyphenation: مَشْ‧ہَد

Noun

مَشْہَد • (maśhad) f (Hindi spelling मशहद)

1. a place where a martyr has died, or is buried; a place of martyrdom; a place of religious visitation; a tomb
2. a place of assembling, an assembly

Proper noun

مَشْہَد • (maśhad) m (Hindi spelling मशहद)

1. Mashhad (The second largest city in Iran; capital of Razavi Khorasan)

Further reading

• “مشہد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مشہد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.