ملکہ
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Punjabi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).
Noun
[edit]مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)
Proper noun
[edit]مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)
- a female given name, Malikah or Malika, from Arabic
See also
[edit]Chess pieces in Punjabi · شَطْرَن٘ج دے مُہرے (śat̤raṉj de muhre) (layout · text) | |||||
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راجا (rājā) بادْشاہ (bādśāh) |
وَزِیر (vazīr) راݨی (rāṇī) |
ہاتھی (hāthī) رُخ (rux) |
فِیلا (fīlā) فَرْضی (farẓī) |
گھوڑا (ghoṛā) | پیادَہ (peyādah) |
Further reading
[edit]- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “ملِکہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mə.lɪ.kɑ(ː)/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /məl.kɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: مَ‧لِ‧کَہ
Noun
[edit]مَلِکَہ • (malika) f (masculine مَلِک (malik) or بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Hindi spelling मलिका)
- queen
- Synonyms: مَہَارانی (mahārānī), رانی (rānī), سُلْطَانَہ (sultāna)
- میرِی خوابوں کی مَلِکَہ ― merī xvābõ kī malika ― queen of my dreams
- the queen bee
- (chess) queen
Declension
[edit]Declension of ملکہ | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | ملکہ (malikah) | ملکائیں (malikā'ẽ) |
oblique | ملکہ (malikah) | ملکاؤں (malikāõ) |
vocative | ملکہ (malikah) | ملکاؤ (malikāo) |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ملکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ملکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ملکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ملکه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1065
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ملکه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “ملکه”, 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
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