موسمبی

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique (“Mozambique”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɔː.səm.biː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مَو‧سَم‧بی

Noun

مَوسَمبی • (mausambī) f (Hindi spelling मौसंबी)

1. sweet lemon

Declension

Declension of موسمبی
	singular	plural
direct	مَوسَمبی (mausambī)	مَوسَمبِیاں (mausambiyā̃)
oblique	مَوسَمبی (mausambī)	مَوسَمبِیوں (mausambiyō̃)
vocative	مَوسَمبی (mausambī)	مَوسَمبِیو (mausambiyō)

Descendants

• → English: mousambi, mausambi

Further reading

• “موسمبی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موسمبی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.