اداس
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Old Hindi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa). Compare Old Punjabi ਉਦਾਸੁ (udāsu), Old Marathi 𑘄𑘟𑘰𑘭 (udāsa).
Adjective[edit]
اُداس (udās)
Descendants[edit]
Urdu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi اداس (udās, “indifferent”), a learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʊ.d̪ɑːs/
- Rhymes: -ɑːs
- Hyphenation: اُ‧داس
Adjective[edit]
اُدَاس • (udās) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling उदास)
- sad, unhappy
- Antonym: خوش (xoś)
- (by extension) apathetic, unconcerned
- (by extension) lackadaisical, fatigued (of toil, labour etc.)
- grey, dull (ie. gloomy)
- (figuratively) empty, desolate, deserted
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “اداس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “اداس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اداس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اداس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “اداس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “اداس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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