قطرہ

See also: قطرة, قطره, and فطرة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَطْرَه (qatra), from Arabic قَطْرَة (qaṭra).

Pronunciation

Noun

قَطْرَہ • (qatram (formal plural قَطْرات (qatrāt), Hindi spelling क़तरा)

  1. drop/droplet (of liquid)

Declension

Declension of قطرہ
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.