خمسہ

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See also: خمسة, خمسه, and حمسة

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa).

Adjective

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خَمْسَہ (xamsa) (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)

  1. five

Noun

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خَمْسَہ (xamsam (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)

  1. an aggregate of five poetical pieces; a stanza of five lines
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Further reading

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  • خمسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خمسہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.