نصف النہار

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نِصْف النَّهَار (niṣf an-nahār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɪf.sʊn.nə.ɦɑːɾ/

Noun

نِصْفُ النَّہار • (nisfun nahār) m (Hindi spelling निस्फ़ुन्नहार)

1. (geography) meridian
2. midday

   Synonym: دوپَہَر (dopahar)

Further reading

• “نصف+النہار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نصف+النہار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نصف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “نصف”, 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
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “نصف”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1163