کوثر

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَوثَر (kawsar), from Arabic كَوْثَر (kawṯar). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi کوثر (kvs̱r /⁠kausar⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɔː.səɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: کَو‧ثَر

Noun

کَوثَر • (kausar) m (Hindi spelling कौसर)

1. (religion) name of a fountain or river in Paradise
2. (Islam, Qur'an) the name of a chapter in the Qur'an
3. (literally) abundance

Declension

Declension of کوثر

	singular	plural
direct	کَوثَر (kausar)	کَوثَر (kausar)
oblique	کَوثَر (kausar)	کَوثَروں (kausarõ)
vocative	کَوثَر (kausar)	کَوثَرو (kausaro)

Proper noun

کَوثَر • (kausar) m (Hindi spelling कौसर)

1. a unisex given name from Arabic

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ك ث ر (0 c, 3 e)

Further reading

• “کوثر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “کوثر”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]