پچھم

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi پچھم (pchm /⁠paccham⁠/) (c. 1736),, a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit पश्चिम (paścima).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pət̪.t͡ʃʰəm/
• Rhymes: -əm

Adjective

پَچَّھم • (paccham) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling पच्छम)

1. west; Western

   Synonyms: مَغْرِب (maġrib), مَغْرِبی (maġribī), پَشْچِم (paścim)

Noun

پَچَّھم • (paccham) m (Hindi spelling पच्छम)

1. the west

   Synonyms: مَغْرِب (maġrib), پَشْچِم (paścim)

2. the West; a Western country

   Synonyms: مَغْرِب (maġrib), پَشْچِم (paścim)

Declension

Declension of پچھم

	singular	plural
direct	پَچَّھم (paccham)	پَچَّھم (paccham)
oblique	پَچَّھم (paccham)	پَچَّھموں (pacchamõ)
vocative	پَچَّھم (paccham)	پَچَّھمو (pacchamo)

See also

compass points (2):  ^[edit]

	اُتَّر (uttar)
پَچَّھم (paccham)		پُورَب (pūrab)
	دَکَّھن (dakkhan)

Further reading

• “پچھم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “پچھم”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]