لہو

Urdu

Alternative forms

• لوہُو (lohū) — rare

Etymology

First attested in c. 1500 as Middle Hindi لہو (luhū /⁠lhū⁠/) / لوہو (lohū), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀳𑀺𑀅 (lohia), ultimately from Sanskrit लोहित (lṓhita), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwdʰitas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lə.ɦuː/

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• Hyphenation: لَ‧ہُو
• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

لَہُو • (lahū) m (Hindi spelling लहू)

1. blood

   Synonyms: خُون (xūn), رَکْت (rakt), دم (dam)

2. (figuratively) blood, nature (characteristic or personality etc.)

   Synonyms: فِطْرَت (fiṭrat), سَرِشْت (sariśt), خَمِیر (xamīr)

3. (figuratively) blood, family relationship

Declension

Declension of لہو

	singular	plural
direct	لَہُو (lahū)	لَہُو (lahū)
oblique	لَہُو (lahū)	لَہُووں (lahūõ)
vocative	لَہُو (lahū)	لَہُوو (lahūo)

Further reading

• “لہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “لہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “لہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “لہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “لـﮩو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1057
• John Shakespear (1834), “لـﮩو”, 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 1536
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650