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مہکار

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Urdu

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Sanskrit मघ (magha)?
    Urdu مَہَک (mahak)
    Urdu کار (kār)
    Urdu مَہَکار (mahakār)

    First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi مہکار (mhkar).[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    مَہَکار • (mahakār) f (Hindi spelling महकार)

    1. fragrance; an act of fragrancing

    Declension

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    Declension of مہکار
    singular plural
    direct مَہَکار (mahakār) مَہَکاریں (mahakārẽ)
    oblique مَہَکار (mahakār) مَہَکاروں (mahakārõ)
    vocative مَہَکار (mahakār) مَہَکارو (mahakāro)

    References

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    1. ^ “مہکار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

    Further reading

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    • “مہکار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “مـﮩـک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1139
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