قلعہ

See also: قلعه and قلعة

Shina

Etymology

From Urdu قلعہ (qilah).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qílla/

Noun

قلعہ (qilla)

1. fort

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa)bor.

Classical Persian قَلْعَه / قِلْعَه (qal'a)bor.

Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a)

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه / قِلْعَه (qal'a), borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɪl.ʔɑ(ː)/, [qɪ.lɑː]
  • (archaic) IPA^(key): /qəl.ʔɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [kɪ.lɑː]
• Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ

Noun

قِلْعَہ • (qil'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)

1. fort, fortress, castle

   Synonyms: کوٹ (koṭ), کوٹْلَہ (koṭla), حِصار (hisār), قَصْر (qasr)

2. (chess) castle (rook)
3. a type of firework which has firecrackers

Declension

Declension of قلعہ

	singular	plural
direct	قِلْعَہ (qil'ah)	قِلْعے (qil'e)
oblique	قِلْعے (qil'e)	قِلْعوں (qil'õ)
vocative	قِلْعے (qil'e)	قِلْعو (qil'o)

Derived terms

• قِلْعَہ بَان٘دْھنا (qil'a bā̃dhnā, “to fortify”)
• قِلْعَہ جَانا (qil'a jānā, “castling”)
• قِلْعَہ دَار (qil'a dār, “commander of a garrison”)
• قِلْعَہ شِکَن (qil'a śikan, “siege battery”)

Descendants

• → English: qila
• → Shina: قلعہ (qilla)

Further reading

• “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
• John Shakespear (1834) “قلعه”, 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