چہرہ

See also: چهره

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چِهْرَه (čihra, “face; visage”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeːɦ.ɾɑː/, /t͡ʃɪɦ.ɾɑː/, [t͡ʃɛʱ.ɾɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

چہرہ • (cehrā or cihrā) m (Hindi spelling चेहरा)

1. face, visage, countenance
2. portrait, likeness
3. mask, facade
4. features, descriptive roll
5. mien, demeanor

Declension

Declension of چہرہ
	singular	plural
direct	چہرہ (cehrah)	چہرے (cehre)
oblique	چہرے (cehre)	چہروں (cehrõ)
vocative	چہرے (cehre)	چہرو (cehro)

Synonyms

• مُن٘ہ (mũh)
• صورت (sūrat)

References

• “چہرہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چہرہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “چہرہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “چہرہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.