انکشاف

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْکِشَاف (inkišāf), from Arabic اِنْكِشَاف (inkišāf).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪn.kɪ.ʃɑːf/
• Rhymes: -ɑːf
• Hyphenation: اِن‧کِ‧شاف

Noun

اِنْکِشاف • (inkiśāf) m (formal plural اِنْکِشافات (inkiśāfāt), Hindi spelling इंकिशाफ़)

1. discovery
2. revelation (ie. something concealed being revealed)

Declension

Declension of انکشاف

	singular	plural
direct	اِنْکِشاف (inkiśāf)	اِنْکِشاف (inkiśāf)
oblique	اِنْکِشاف (inkiśāf)	اِنْکِشافوں (inkiśāfõ)
vocative	اِنْکِشاف (inkiśāf)	اِنْکِشافو (inkiśāfo)

Further reading

• “انکشاف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “انکشاف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “انکشاف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “انکشاف”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.