واسطہ
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/
Noun
[edit]واسِطَہ • (vāsita) m (Hindi spelling वास्ता)
- anything intermediate
- a medium; an instrument
- a mediator; middle-man; agent; broker
- means; motive, cause, reason, occasion
- account, sake
- relationship, connexion
- business, concern
Declension
[edit]| Declension of واسطہ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | واسطَہ (vāsitah) | واسطے (vāsite) | ||||||
| oblique | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطوں (vāsitõ) | ||||||
| vocative | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطو (vāsito) | ||||||
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “واسطہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “واسطہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “واسطہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.