کشندہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کُشِنْدَه (kušinda, “killer”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kʊ.ʃɪn.d̪ɑ(ː)/

Noun

کُشِنْدَہ • (kuśinda) m (Hindi spelling कुशिंदा)

1. killer, slaughterer

Related terms

• کُش (kuś)

References

• “کشندہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کشندہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کشندہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “کشندہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.