پریتم

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रीतम (prītama).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɾiː.t̪əm/
• Rhymes: -əm

Proper noun

پْرِیتَم • (prītam) m (Hindi spelling प्रीतम)

1. a male given name, Pritam

Noun

پْرِیتَم • (prītam) m (Hindi spelling प्रीतम) (chiefly poetic)

1. beloved, lover, sweetheart

Declension

Declension of پریتم

	singular	plural
direct	پْرِیتَم (prītam)	پْرِیتَم (prītam)
oblique	پْرِیتَم (prītam)	پْرِیتَموں (prītamõ)
vocative	پْرِیتَم (prītam)	پْرِیتَمو (prītamo)

Further reading

• “پریتم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پریتم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “پریتم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “پريتم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 259
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “پريتم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “پریتم”, 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