عقلمند

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic ع ق ل (ʕ q l)

Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql)bor.

Classical Persian عَقْل (aql)bor.

Urdu عَقْل ('aql)

Urdu مَنْد (mand)

Urdu عَقْلْمَنْد ('aqlmand)

From عَقْل ('aql, “intelligence”) +‎ مَنْد (mand). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi عقلمند ('qlmnd).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)əql.mənd̪/
• Rhymes: -ənd̪
• Hyphenation: عَقْلْ‧مَنْد

Adjective

عَقْلْمَنْد • ('aqlmand) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling अक़्लमंद)

1. intelligent, smart

   Synonyms: سَمَجْھدَار (samajhdār), ہوشِیار (hośiyār)

2. cunning

Further reading

More information

• “عقلمند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عقل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437
• Platts, John T. (1884) “عقلمند”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “عقل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “عقلمند”, 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