ماتم

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Urdu[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian ماتَم (mātam), from Arabic مَأْتَم (maʔtam).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɑː.t̪əm/
  • Audio (Pakistan)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əm
  • Hyphenation: ما‧تَم

Noun[edit]

ماتَم • (mātam) m (Hindi spelling मातम)

  1. mourning, grief
    Synonym: سوگ (sog)
  2. lamentation, beating the chest
  3. (by extension) regret, sorrow
  4. a women's gathering for a good deed or bad occasion
  5. (Shia Islam) ritual mourning (for Imam Hussain's martydom)

Declension[edit]

Declension of ماتم
singular plural
direct ماتَم (mātam) ماتَم (mātam)
oblique ماتَم (mātam) ماتَموں (mātamō̃)
vocative ماتَم (mātam) ماتَمو (mātamō)

Further reading[edit]

  • “ماتم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ماتم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ماتم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Urdu ماتَم (mātam), from Classical Persian ماتَم (mātam), from Arabic مَأْتَم (maʔtam).

Noun[edit]

ماتم (mātam)

  1. mourning ceremony
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