بیلن
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Urdu
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit वेल्लन (vellana, “shaking; rolling pin”).[1] Cognate with Bengali বেলন (belon), Gujarati વેલણ (velaṇ), and Punjabi ویلْݨا (velṇā).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /beː.lən/
Noun
[edit]بیلَن • (belan) m (Hindi spelling बेलन)
- rolling pin
- Coordinate term: بیلْنی (belnī, “small rolling pin”)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of بیلن | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | بیلَن (belan) | بیلَن (belan) | ||||||
| oblique | بیلَن (belan) | بیلَنوں (belanõ) | ||||||
| vocative | بیلَن (belan) | بیلَنو (belano) | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vēllana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
[edit]- “بیلن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “بیلن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بیلن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 141
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بیلن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 211
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بیلن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 321