क़ामूस

Hindi

Alternative forms

  • कामूस (kāmūs) — nuqtaless

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós). It came to be used as a word for dictionary in Arabic after a lexicon published named Al-Qamus (see Firuzabadi). Doublet of ऊक़ियानूस (ūqiyānūs).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Hindi) IPA(key): /qɑː.muːs/, [qäː.muːs], /kɑː.muːs/, [käː.muːs]

Noun

क़ामूस • (qāmūs) m (Urdu spelling قَامُوس)

  1. ocean
  2. dictionary
    Synonyms: अभिधान (abhidhān), शब्दकोश (śabdakoś), शब्दकोष (śabdakoṣ), लुग़त (luġat), लुग़ात (luġāt)

References

  • “क़ामूस”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “قاموس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قاموس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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