शमा

See also: शाम

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَمْع (šam'), from Arabic شَمْع (šamʕ). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi شَمْع (śm' /⁠śam'⁠/).[1] Compare Bengali শামা (śama).

Pronunciation

Noun

शमा • (śamā) f (Urdu spelling شَمْع) (chiefly poetic)

  1. candle; lamp
    Synonyms: बत्ती (battī), मोमबत्ती (mombattī)
  2. (dated sense) candlestick
  3. wax[2]
    Synonym: मोम (mom)
  4. (religion, mysticism) the Light of God

Declension

Declension of शमा (fem ā-stem)
singular plural
direct शमा
śamā 		शमाएँ
śamāẽ
oblique शमा
śamā 		शमाओं
śamāõ
vocative शमा
śamā 		शमाओ
śamāo

References

  1. ^ “शमा”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884), “शमा”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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