قلعہ

See also: قلعه and قلعة

Shina

Etymology

From Urdu قلعہ (qilah).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qílla/

Noun

قلعہ (qilla)

  1. fort

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a, qil'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) or قِلْعَة (qilʕa).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qɪl.ʔɑ(ː)/
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /qɪ.lɑː/
  • (archaic) IPA(key): /qəl.ʔɑ(ː)/
  • Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ

Noun

قِلْعَہ • (qil'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)

  1. fort, fortress, castle
    Synonyms: کوٹ (koṭ), کوٹْلَہ (koṭla), حِصار (hisār), قَصْر (qasr)
  2. (chess) castle (rook)
  3. a type of firework which has firecrackers

Declension
Declension of قلعہ
singular plural
direct قِلْعہ (qil'ah) قِلْعے (qil'e)
oblique قِلْعے (qil'e) قِلْعوں (qil'õ)
vocative قِلْعے (qil'e) قِلْعو (qil'o)

Derived terms
Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: qila
  • → Shina: قلعہ (qilla)

References
  • “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “قلعه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
  • John Shakespear (1834) “قلعه”, 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
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