نیلام

Urdu

Alternative forms

• لِیلام (līlām)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama)

Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām)bor.

Portuguese leilãobor.

Urdu نیلام

Borrowed from Portuguese leilão, borrowed from Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām), from أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama).

Doublet of اِعْلام (i'lām).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /niː.lɑːm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm

Noun

نِیلام • (nīlām) m (Hindi spelling नीलाम)

1. auction (a public event where goods are sold through bidding)

Declension

Declension of نیلام

	singular	plural
direct	نِیلام (nīlām)	نِیلام (nīlām)
oblique	نِیلام (nīlām)	نِیلاموں (nīlāmõ)
vocative	نِیلام (nīlām)	نِیلامو (nīlāmo)

Descendants

• → Punjabi: ਨੀਲਾਮ / نِیلام (nīlām), ਨਿਲਾਮ / نِلام (nilām)
• → Sindhi: نِيلامُ / नीलामु (nīlāmu)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “نيلام”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1180
• Platts, John T. (1884), “نیلام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1168
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نیلام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 656
• “نیلام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• “نیلام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.