کٹھل
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit कण्टफल (kaṇṭaphala, literally “thorny fruit”); cognate with Assamese কঁঠাল (kõthal), Bengali কাঁঠাল (kãṭhal), Bhojpuri कटहर (kaṭᵊhar), and Odia କଠଲ (kaṭhala).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kə.ʈʰəl/
- Rhymes: -əl
- Hyphenation: کَ‧ٹَھل
Noun
[edit]کَٹَھل • (kaṭhal) m (Hindi spelling कठल or कटहल)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) | کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) |
| oblique | کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) | کَٹَھلوں (kaṭhalõ) |
| vocative | کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) | کَٹَھلو (kaṭhalo) |
Further reading
[edit]- “کٹھل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “کٹھل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “کٿهل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834), “کٿهل”, 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
- Fallon, S. W. (1879), “کتَهل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kaṇṭaphala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 134