پھول

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀨𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (phulla), from Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla).

Cognates include Assamese ফুল (phul), Bengali ফুল (phul), Bhojpuri फूल (phūl), Gujarati ફૂલ (phūl), Maithili फूल (phūl), Marathi फूल (phūl), Nepali फूल (phūl), Odia ଫୁଲ (phula), Punjabi پھل / ਫੁੱਲ (phulla), and Sindhi ڦل (phulu).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pʰuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

پُھول • (phūl) m (Hindi spelling फूल)

1. flower
2. blossom

Declension

Declension of پھول

	singular	plural
direct	پُھول (phūl)	پُھول (phūl)
oblique	پُھول (phūl)	پُھولوں (phūlõ)
vocative	پُھول (phūl)	پُھولو (phūlo)

Further reading

• “پھول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پھول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پھول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پهول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 292
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پهول”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 386
• John Shakespear (1834) “پھول”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “phulla”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 511