زلزلہ

See also: زلزلة and زلزله

Punjabi

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Arabic زَلْزَلَة (zalzala)bor.

Classical Persian زَلْزَلَه (zalzala)bor.

Punjabi زَلْزَلَہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian زَلْزَلَه (zalzala), from Arabic زَلْزَلَة (zalzala).

Noun

زَلْزَلَہ • (zalzalah) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜ਼ਲਜ਼ਲਾ)

1. earthquake, seism

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “زلزَلَہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic زَلْزَلَة (zalzala)bor.

Classical Persian زَلْزَلَه (zalzala)bor.

Urdu زَلْزَلَہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian زَلْزَلَه (zalzala), from Arabic زَلْزَلَة (zalzala). First attested in c. 1739 as Middle Hindi زلزلہ (zlzlh /⁠zalzala⁠/).

Noun

زَلْزَلَہ • (zalzala) m (formal plural زَلازِل (zalāzil), Hindi spelling ज़लज़ला)

1. earthquake, seism

Declension

Declension of زلزلہ

	singular	plural
direct	زَلْزَلَہ (zalzalah)	زَلْزَلے (zalzale)
oblique	زَلْزَلے (zalzale)	زَلْزَلوں (zalzalõ)
vocative	زَلْزَلے (zalzale)	زَلْزَلو (zalzalo)

Further reading

• “زلزلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “زلزلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 357
• Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008), “zalzalā”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 925.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu زلزلہ (zalzalah).

Noun

زلزلہ (zalzalah)

1. earthquake