پرندہ

See also: پرنده and برنده

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَرَنْدَه (paranda). Equivalent to پَرِنْد (parind) +‎ ـَہ (-a). First attested in c. 1645 as Middle Hindi پرندہ (prndh /⁠paranda⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾɪn.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• (dated) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾən.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: پَ‧رِن‧دَہ

Noun

پَرِنْدَہ • (parinda) m (Hindi spelling परिंदा)

1. bird

   Synonyms: چِڑِیَا (ciṛiyā), پَنْچِھی (panchī)

2. (alchemy) mercury

Declension

Declension of پرندہ

	singular	plural
direct	پَرِنْدَہ (parindah)	پَرِنْدے (parinde)
oblique	پَرِنْدے (parinde)	پَرِنْدوں (parindõ)
vocative	پَرِنْدے (parinde)	پَرِنْدو (parindo)

Adjective

پَرِنْدَہ • (parinda) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling परिंदा)

1. winged; flying

Further reading

More information

• “پرندہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پرنده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 155
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پرنده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 255
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پرنده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 355
• John Shakespear (1834) “پرندہ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC