وراثت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian وِرَاثَت (wirāsat), from Arabic وِرَاثَة (wirāṯa).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋɪ.ɾɑː.sət̪/
  • Rhymes: -ət̪
  • Hyphenation: وِ‧رَا‧ثَت

Noun

وِرَاثَت • (virāsatf (Hindi spelling विरासत)

  1. inheritance, heritage
  2. (biology) heredity
  3. (biology) pangenesis

Declension

Declension of وراثت
singular plural
direct وِرَاثَت (virāsat) وِرَاثَتیں (virāsatẽ)
oblique وِرَاثَت (virāsat) وِرَاثَتوں (virāsatõ)
vocative وِرَاثَت (virāsat) وِرَاثَتو (virāsato)

Further reading

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