مسکراہٹ

Urdu

Etymology

From مُسْکُرَانَا (muskurānā, “to smile”) +‎ ـَاہَٹ (-āhaṭ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊs.kʊ.ɾɑː.ɦəʈ/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [mʊs.kə.ɾɑːʈ]
• Rhymes: -əʈ

Noun

مُسْکُرَاہَٹ • (muskurāhaṭ) f (Hindi spelling मुस्कुराहट)

1. a smile

   Synonym: تَبَسُّم (tabassum)

2. smirk; grin

Declension

Declension of مسکراہٹ
	singular	plural
direct	مُسْکُرَاہَٹ (muskurāhaṭ)	مُسْکُرَاہَٹیں (muskurāhaṭẽ)
oblique	مُسْکُرَاہَٹ (muskurāhaṭ)	مُسْکُرَاہَٹوں (muskurāhaṭõ)
vocative	مُسْکُرَاہَٹ (muskurāhaṭ)	مُسْکُرَاہَٹو (muskurāhaṭo)

Further reading

• “مسکراہٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مسکراہٹ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مسکرانا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 587
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مسکراهٿ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1035
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مسکرانا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1097
• John Shakespear (1834) “مسکراهٿ”, 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