مجہول

See also: مجهول

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مجهول (majhūl), from Arabic مَجْهُول (majhūl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məd͡ʒ.ɦuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Hyphenation: مَج‧ہُول

Adjective

مَجْہُول • (majhūl) (Hindi spelling मजहूल)

1. unknown

   Synonyms: غَیر مَعْرُوف (ġair ma'rūf), نامَعْلُوم (nāma'lūm)

2. idle; useless
3. (grammar) passive voice
4. (phonology) a passive vowel
   1. an epithet for the diacritics
   2. an epithet for the و (vao) and ی (ye) letters

Antonyms

• مَعْرُوف (ma'rūf)

Further reading

• “مجہول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مجہول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مجہول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مجہول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.