پریم

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रेमन् (preman) through Old Hindi प्रेम (prema).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾeːm/, /pɾeːm/
• Rhymes: -eːm

Noun

پریم • (parem or prem) m (Hindi spelling प्रेम)

1. love

   Synonyms: پْیار (pyār), عِشْق ('iśq), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)

Further reading

• “پریم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پريم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “प्रेम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پريم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.