بہو

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi بہو (bahū /⁠bhū⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀳𑀽 (vahū), 𑀯𑀥𑀽 (vadhū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.ɦuː/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [bə̯uː]
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: بَ‧ہُو

Noun

بَہُو • (bahū) f (Hindi spelling बहू)

1. daughter-in-law (son's wife)
2. (by extension) bride; wife – the newly wedded wife in the family

Declension

Declension of بہو
	singular	plural
direct	بَہُو (bahū)	بَہُویں (bahūẽ)
oblique	بَہُو (bahū)	بَہُووں (bahūõ)
vocative	بَہُو (bahū)	بَہُوو (bahūo)

Descendants

• → English: bahu

Further reading

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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC