مشدد

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُشَدَّد (mušaddad), from Arabic مُشَدَّد (mušaddad).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.ʃəd̪.d̪əd̪/
• Rhymes: -əd̪

Adjective

مُشَدَّد • (muśaddad) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मुशद्दद)

1. (phonology) geminated
2. (linguistics) a letter with a tashdid diacritic.
3. corroborated; strengthened

Further reading

• “مشدد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مشدد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مشدد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مشدد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مشدد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “مشدد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC