अलहदा

• अलाहदा (alāhdā), अलाहिदा (alāhidā), अलैहिदा (alaihidā)

Likely borrowed from Classical Persian علیحده. Univerbation of Arabic عَلَى حِدَة (ʕalā ḥida, “separately, by oneself, by one’s own, being solitary”, literally “on solitariness, upon solitude”). Cognate with Bengali আলাদা (alada).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ə.ləɦ.d̪ɑː/, [ɐ.lɛʱ.d̪äː]

अलहदा • (alahdā) (Urdu spelling عَلَیحِدَہ)

1. different, various

   Synonym: अलग (alag)

2. separate, apart from, asunder, disconnected, distinct

   Synonyms: अलग (alag), अलग-अलग (alag-alag)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “अलहदा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press