مہلت

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic مَهَلَ (mahala)

Arabic مُهْلَة (muhla)bor.

Classical Persian مُهْلَت (muhlat)bor.

Urdu مُہْلَت (muhlat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُهْلَت (muhlat), borrowed from Arabic مُهْلَة (muhla), from مَهَلَ (mahala). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi مہلت (mhlt /⁠muhlat⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊɦ.lət̪/, [moɦ.lət̪]
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: مُہ‧لَت

Noun

مُہْلَت • (muhlat) f (Hindi spelling मोहलत)

1. respite, delay; extension; grace period (extra time before a deadline or before something bad incurs)

Declension

Declension of مہلت

	singular	plural
direct	مُہْلَت (muhlat)	مُہْلَتیں (muhlatẽ)
oblique	مُہْلَت (muhlat)	مُہْلَتوں (muhlatõ)
vocative	مُہْلَت (muhlat)	مُہْلَتو (muhlato)

Further reading

• “مہلت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مہلت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مـﮩلت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1139
• John Shakespear (1834) “مـﮩلت”, 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, page 1720