जाहिल

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جاهل (jāhil), from Arabic جَاهِل (jāhil).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑː.ɦɪl/, [d͡ʒäː.ɦɪl]

Adjective

जाहिल • (jāhil) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling جاہل)

1. idiotic, ignorant, uneducated, foolish

   Synonym: मूर्ख (mūrkh)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “जाहिल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press