హక్కు

Telugu

Etymology

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Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq)bor.

Classical Persian حَقّ (haqq)bor.

Urdu حَق (haq)bor.

Telugu హక్కు (hakku)

Borrowed from Urdu حَق (haq), borrowed from Classical Persian حَقّ (haqq), borrowed from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq). Compare Punjabi ਹੱਕ (hakka) / حَق (ḥaq), Gujarati હક (hak), Marathi हक्क (hakka), Bengali হক (hok).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hakːu/

Noun

హక్కు • (hakku) ? (plural హక్కులు)

1. legal right, claim or title

   Synonyms: స్వామ్యము (svāmyamu), బాధ్యత (bādhyata), అధికారము (adhikāramu)

References

• "హక్కు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1388
• హక్కు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)