برہنہ
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Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Persian برهنه (birahna, “nude, naked; bare”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.ɾəɦ.nɑ(ː)/, /bɪ.ɾəɦ.nɑ(ː)/
Adjective
[edit]برہنہ • (barahna)
- nude, naked, unclothed
- میں برہنہ ہو گئی اور نہائی تھی
- mẽ barahna ho gayī aur nahāyī thī
- I got nude and took a shower
- bare, uncovered
- ہم برہنہ ٹانگوں کے ساتھ دریا میں چلے گئے
- ham barahne ṭāngõ ke sāth daryā me cale ga'e
- we walked into the river with bare legs
Synonyms
[edit]- ننگا (nãṅgā)
Derived terms
[edit]- برہنہ سر (barahna-sar, “bare head”)
- بَرَہْنَہ پا (barahna-pā, “barefooted”)
- جسم برہنہ (jism-e-barahna, “nude body”)
- نِیم بَرَہنَہ (nīm-barahna, “semi-nude”)
- شَمْشِیرِ بَرْہَنَہ (śamśīr-e-barahna, “unsheathed sword”, literally “naked sword”)
References
[edit]- “برہنہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برہنہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “برہنہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “برہنہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.