سندھ

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Etymology[edit]

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).[1] Doublet of ہِنْد (hind) and اِنْڈِیا (inḍiyā). Compare Khowar سِن (sin), Saraiki سِنّہہ (sinnh), Ushojo سندھو (sindhō).

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Proper noun[edit]

سِنْدھ (sindhm (Hindi spelling सिंध)

  1. Sindh (a province of Pakistan)
  2. Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China)
    دَرْیَائے سِنْدھdaryā'e sindhThe Indus river
  3. (historical) Sind, Scinde (a province of British India)

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References[edit]

  1. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सिंध”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1012

Further reading[edit]

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سندهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 682
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سندهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 386
  • سندھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سندهہ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1104
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sindhu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 774