قطرہ
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قَطْرَه (qatra), from Arabic قَطْرَة (qaṭra).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qət̪.ɾɑ(ː)/
Noun
قَطْرَہ • (qatra) m (formal plural قَطْرات (qatrāt), Hindi spelling क़तरा)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | قَطْرَہ (qatrah) | قَطْرے (qatre) |
| oblique | قَطْرے (qatre) | قَطْروں (qatrõ) |
| vocative | قَطْرے (qatre) | قَطْرو (qatro) |
Synonyms
- بُوند (būnd)
Further reading
- Fallon, S. W. (1879), “قطرہ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 888
- Platts, John T. (1884), “قطرہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 793
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قطرہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 466
- “قطرہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
- John Shakespear (1834), “قطرہ”, 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 1285
- “قطرہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.