نمک حلال
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نَمَک حَلَال (namak halāl).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nə.mək ɦə.lɑːl/, /nɪ.mək ɦə.lɑːl/
Adjective
[edit]نَمَک حَلال • (namak halāl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नमक हलाल) (figurative)
- loyal, faithful
- Antonym: نَمَک حَرام (namak harām)
Derived terms
[edit]- نَمَک حَلالی (namak halālī, “loyalty”)
Further reading
[edit]- Fallon, S. W. (1879), “نمک+حلال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1171
- Platts, John T. (1884), “نمک حلال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 916
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نمک+حلال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 650
- “نمک+حلال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
- John Shakespear (1834), “نمک+حلال”, 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, page 1794
- “نمک+حلال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.