بہو
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Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi بہو (bahū /bhū/),[1] inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀳𑀽 (vahū), 𑀯𑀥𑀽 (vadhū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.ɦuː/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): [bə̯uː]
- Rhymes: -uː
- Hyphenation: بَ‧ہُو
Noun
[edit]بَہُو • (bahū) f (Hindi spelling बहू)
Declension
[edit]Declension of بہو | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | بَہُو (bahū) | بَہُویں (bahūẽ) |
oblique | بَہُو (bahū) | بَہُووں (bahūõ) |
vocative | بَہُو (bahū) | بَہُوو (bahūo) |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bahu
References
[edit]- ^ “بہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vadhūˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
[edit]More information
- “بہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بُـﮩو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 303
- John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩو”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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