واقعہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian واقعه (vâqi'a), itself from Arabic وَاقِعَة (wāqiʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.qɪ.(ʔ)ɑ(ː)/

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Noun

واقِعَہ • (vāqi'a) m (formal plural وَاقِعَات (vāqi'āt), Hindi spelling वाक़िया)

1. event, incident
2. episode
3. occurrence
4. encounter
5. matter, tale, story

   Synonyms: وارِد (vārid), گھَٹْنا (ghaṭnā)

Declension

Declension of واقعہ
	singular	plural
direct	واقِعَہ (vāqi'ah)	واقِعے (vāqi'e)
oblique	واقِعے (vāqi'e)	واقِعوں (vāqi'õ)
vocative	واقِعے (vāqi'e)	واقِعو (vāqi'o)

Further reading

• “واقعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “واقعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “واقعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu واقعہ (vāqiʻa), from Arabic وَاقِعَة (wāqiʕa).

Noun

واقعہ (vāqiʻa)

1. event, incident
2. occurrence, encounter
3. matter, tale, story