बरबाद

Hindi

Alternative forms

• बर्बाद (barbād)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian برباد (bar-bād, literally “to the wind”). Compare Bengali বরবাদ (borbad).

Adjective

बरबाद • (barbād) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling برباد)

1. ruined, destroyed

Synonyms

• नष्ट (naṣṭ)

Derived terms

• बरबाद करना (barbād karnā, “to ruin”)

Related terms

• बरबादी (barbādī, “ruin, destruction”)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press