हद

See also: हदें, हदों, हिंद, हिंदू, हिंदी, हौद, हृदा, and हृद्

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حدّ (hadd), from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd). Compare Bengali হদ্দ (hoddo), Gujarati હદ (had), Marathi हद्द (hadda), Punjabi ਹੱਦ (hadda) / حد (hadd).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦəd̪/, [ɦɐd̪]
• Rhymes: -əd̪

Noun

हद • (had) f (Urdu spelling حَدْ)

1. a limit, ceiling

   Synonym: सीमा (sīmā)

2. boundary, limits

Declension

Declension of हद (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	हद had	हदें, हुदूद hadẽ, hudūd
oblique	हद had	हदों, हुदूदों hadõ, hudūdõ
vocative	हद had	हदो, हुदूदो hado, hudūdo

Derived terms

• बेहद (behad)
• हदबंदी (hadbandī)

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “हद”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1058
• “हद”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.