سندھ

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu)slbor.

Urdu سِنْدھ (sindh)

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɪnd̪ʱ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnd̪ʱ

Proper noun

سِنْدھ • (sindh) m (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 سِنْدھ ― daryā'e sindh ― The Indus river

3. (historical) Sind, Scinde (a province of British India)

Derived terms

• سِنْدِھی (sindhī)

See also

provinces and territories of Pakistan: پاکِسْتان کی اِنْتِظامی تَقْسِیمیں (pākistān kī intizāmī taqsīmẽ)edit

• آزاد کَشْمِیر (āzād kaśmīr)
• اِسْلام آباد وِفاقی دارْاَلْحَکُومَت (islām ābād vifāqī dār-alhakūmat)
• بَلوچِسْتان (balocistān)
• خَیبَر پَخْتُونْخْوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā)
• سِنْدھ (sindh)
• پَنْجاب (panjāb)
• گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان (gilgit baltistān)

Further reading

• 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, 2025.
• 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, 3^rd 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