قرنطینہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَرَنْطِینَه (qarantīna), from Ottoman Turkish قرانتینه (karantina), Italian quarantina, from Latin quadrāgintā (“forty”).

Pronunciation

Noun

قَرَنْطِینَہ • (qarantīna) m (Hindi spelling क़रन्तीना)

  1. quarantine

Further reading

  • “قرنطینہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قرنطینہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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