اہلیہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَهْلِيَه, from Arabic أَهْلِيَّة (ʔahliyya). Doublet of اَہْلِیَّت (ahliyyat).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /əɦ.lɪ.jɑ(ː)/, [ɛɦ.lɪ.jɑː]
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): [eʱ.lɪ.jɑː]

Noun

اَہْلِیَہ • (ahliya) f (Hindi spelling अहलिया) (chiefly formal)

  1. wife, spouse
    Synonyms: زَوجَہ (zauja), بیگَم (begam), بِیوِی (bīvī)

Declension

Declension of اہلیہ
singular plural
direct اَہْلِیَہ (ahlīah) اَہْلِیائیں (ahlīā'ẽ)
oblique اَہْلِیَہ (ahlīah) اَہْلِیاؤں (ahlīāõ)
vocative اَہْلِیَہ (ahlīah) اَہْلِیاؤ (ahlīāo)

Further reading

  • “اہلیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “اہلیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “اہل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 86
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “اهليه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 110
  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آﮩليه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 184
  • John Shakespear (1834), “اهليه”, 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, page 180
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