خمسہ
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Urdu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa).
Adjective[edit]
خَمْسَہ • (xamsa) (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)
Noun[edit]
خَمْسَہ • (xamsa) m (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)
- an aggregate of five poetical pieces; a stanza of five lines
Related terms[edit]
- خمس (xums)
Further reading[edit]
- “خمسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “خمسہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.