بھرم

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit भ्रम (bhrama).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʱə.ɾəm/
• Rhymes: -əm
• Hyphenation: بَھ‧رَم

Noun

بَھرَم • (bharam) m (Hindi spelling भरम)

1. illusion, delusion
2. error

   Synonyms: شَک (śak), گُمان (gumān), سَنْدیہ (sandeh), رَیب (raib), سَنْشَیَہ (sanśaya), شُبَہ (śuba)

3. secret

Declension

Declension of بھرم
	singular	plural
direct	بَھرَم (bharam)	بَھرَم (bharam)
oblique	بَھرَم (bharam)	بَھرَموں (bharamō̃)
vocative	بَھرَم (bharam)	بَھرَمو (bharamō)

Further reading

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