نعم البدل
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From نِعَم (ni'am, “blessing”) + اَل (al, “the”) + بَدَل (badal, “exchange”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /neː.mʊl.bə.d̪əl/, /neː.məl.bə.d̪əl/
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - Rhymes: -əl
- Hyphenation: نِع‧مُ ال‧بَ‧دَل
Noun
[edit]نِعْمُ البَدَل or نِعْمَ البَدَل • (ni’mulbadal or ni’malbadal) m (Hindi spelling नेमुलबदल or नेमलबदल) (idiomatic)
- better alternative, change for the better (especially, but not limited to, after incurring a loss)
- 1891, محمد ذکا اللہ [Muḥammad Z̲akāʼullāh], محاسن الاخلاق [maḥāsin alixlāq][1], →OCLC, page 722:
- نوجوان عورت کا بچّہ مرجائے تو اُس کو خدا سے نعم البدل ملنے کی امید رکھنی چاہیے۔
- naujavān ‘aurat kā bacca marjāe to us ko xudā se niʻmulbadal milne kī ummīd rakhnī cāhīye.
- If a young woman's child dies, she should hope to receive a better return from God.
- better substitute, replacement
- 1944, آدمی اور مشین [ādamī aur maśīn], →OCLC, page 254:
- ایک شعبہ ایسا ہے جس میں معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ مہارت ختم ہو گئی ہے اور اس کا ہمیں کوئی نعم البدل نہیں ملا ہے۔
- ek śuʻba aisā hai jis mẽ ma‘lūm hotā hai ki mahārat xatm ho gaī hai aur us kā hamẽ koī niʻmulbadal nahī̃ milā hai.
- There is a department in which expertise seems to have diminished and we have had no such replacement.
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) |
| oblique | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدلوں (ni’mu lbadalõ) |
| vocative | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدلو (ni’mu lbadalo) |
Further reading
[edit]- “نعم البدل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ne'mul-badal”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نعم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 644
- Platts, John T. (1884), “نعم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834), “نعم”, 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