بھینس

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi بھینس (bhyns /⁠bhē̃ns⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀳𑀺𑀲𑀻 (mahisī), from Sanskrit महिष (mahiṣa). Cognate with Nepali भैंसी (bha͠isī), Gujarati ભેંસ (bhẽs), Marathi म्हैस (mhais), Punjabi مھینس (mhaiṉs).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʱɛ̃ːs/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /bʱĩːs/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃ːs

Noun

بَھین٘س • (bha͠is) f (masculine بَھین٘سا (bha͠isā), Hindi spelling भैंस)

1. buffalo
2. water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
3. (figuratively, derogatory) a fat woman
4. a type of fish found in the Indian subcontinent
5. the name of a special type of grass

Declension

Declension of بھینس
	singular	plural
direct	بَھین٘س (bha͠is)	بَھین٘سیں (bha͠isẽ)
oblique	بَھین٘س (bha͠is)	بَھین٘سوں (bha͠isõ)
vocative	بَھین٘س (bha͠is)	بَھین٘سو (bha͠iso)

Further reading

• “بھینس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بھینس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهينس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بهينس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 201
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بهينس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 310
• John Shakespear (1834) “بھینس”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mahiṣá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press