کالی جمعرات
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Urdu جُمِعْرَات (jumi'rāt)
Urdu کَالی جُمِعْرَات (kālī jumi'rāt)
From کَالی (kālī, “black”) + جُمِعْرَات (jumi'rāt, “Thursday”), literally “a black Thursday”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kɑː.liː d͡ʒʊ.mɪʔ.ɾɑːt̪/, [kɑː.liː d͡ʒʊ.meː.ɾɑːt̪]
Noun
[edit]کَالی جُمِعْرَات • (kālī jumi'rāt) f (Hindi spelling काली जुमेरात) (idiomatic)
- the first of never (a hypothetical day for fulfilment of promise)
- 2002, Abid Tahami, اِلَیکْشَین، ۲ [ilaikśain, 2, Election, 2], →OCLC, page 228:
- اخبار ساؤتھ ایشیا ٹربیون کے مطابق 10 اکتوبر مشرف کیلئے کالی جمعرات ثابت ہوا ہے۔
- axbār sāuth eśiyā ṭiribiyūn ke mutābiq 10 aktūbar muśarraf kelie kālī jumi'rāt sābit huā hai.
- According to the newspaper the South Asia Tribune, the 10th of October has proved to be the first of never for Musharraf.
- doomsday
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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direct | کَالی جُمِعْرَات (kālī jumi'rāt) | کَالی جُمِعْرَاتیں (kālī jumi'rātẽ) |
oblique | کَالی جُمِعْرَات (kālī jumi'rāt) | کَالی جُمِعْرَاتوں (kālī jumi'rātõ) |
vocative | کَالی جُمِعْرَات (kālī jumi'rāt) | کَالی جُمِعْرَاتو (kālī jumi'rāto) |
Derived terms
[edit]- کَالِی جُمِعْرَات کَا وَعْدَہ (kālī jumi'rāt kā va'da, “a false promise”, literally “the promise of a black Thursday”)
Further reading
[edit]- “کالی+جمعرات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “kaalii-jume'raat”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “جمعرات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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