نصف النہار

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نِصْف النَّهَار (niṣf an-nahār).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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نِصْفُ النَّہار (nisfun nahārm (Hindi spelling निस्फ़ुन्नहार)

  1. (geography) meridian
  2. midday
    Synonym: دوپَہَر (dopahar)

Further reading

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  • نصف+النہار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • نصف+النہار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نصف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “نصف”, 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
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “نصف”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1163