ترجمہ

See also: ترجمة, ترجمه, and برجمة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ترجمه (tarjama), from Arabic تَرْجَمَة (tarjama).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əɾ.d͡ʒə.mɑ(ː)/
• (common) IPA^(key): /t̪əɾ.d͡ʒʊ.mɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: تَر‧جُ‧مَہ

Noun

تَرْجَمَہ • (tarjama) m (Hindi spelling तर्जुमा)

1. (linguistics) translation; interpretation
2. (rare) rendering, rendition

Declension

Declension of ترجمہ
	singular	plural
direct	تَرْجَمہ (tarjamah)	تَرْجَمے (tarjame)
oblique	تَرْجَمے (tarjame)	تَرْجَموں (tarjamõ)
vocative	تَرْجَمے (tarjame)	تَرْجَمو (tarjamo)

Derived terms

• تَرْجَمانَوِیس (tarjamānavīs, “translator, interpreter”)
• تَرْجَمَہ کَرْنا (tarjama karnā, “to translate”)
• تَرْجَمَہ ہونا (tarjama honā, “to be translated”)

 

Related terms

• تَرْجُمان (tarjumān, “translator, interpreter”)

 

Further reading

• “ترجمہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ترجمہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ترجمہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.