لوہا
Urdu
FWOTD – 16 November 2023
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀳 (loha), from Sanskrit लोह (lōhá). First attested as Old Hindi لوہا (lohā) in 1564 A.D.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /loː.ɦɑː/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: لو‧ہا
Noun
لوہا • (lohā) m (Hindi spelling लोहा)
- iron (Fe)
- Synonym: آہَن (āhan)
- (by extension) an object made from metal
- Synonym: اِسْتْری (istrī)
- 1989, وزیر آغا [ozer āġā, Wazir Agha], سمندر اگر میرے اندر گرے [samandar agar mere andar gire, If the ocean falls inside of me], Lahore: مکتبۂ فکرِ خیال [Maktaba-yi fikar o xayāl], →OCLC, page 57:
- یکایک یہ کھلونا کپڑے یا لوہے یا ربڑ یا پلاسٹک کی بنی ہوئی شے نہیں رہ جاتا بلکہ باقاعدہ سانس لینے، ہنسنے، رونے، بگڑنے یا پیار کرنے لگتا ہے۔
- yakāyak yih khilonā kapṛe yā lohe yā rabaṛ yā pilāsṭik kī banī hū'ī śai nahīṉ rah jātā balkih bāqā‘idah sāns lene, hansne, rone, bigaṛne ya pyar karne lagtā hai.
- Suddenly, this toy is no longer an object [deduced to something merely] made from cloth or metal, or rubber, or plastic, but rather begins to breathe, laugh, cry, corrode or love.
- (figuratively) a sword
- Synonym: تَلْوَار (talvār)
- 1880, محمد حسین جاہ [Muhammad Husain Jah], طلسمِ فصاحت [T̤ilism-i faṣāḥat], →OCLC, page 191:
- لوہا صاف ہوا کیا ہر ایک عازم دشت معاف ہوا
- lohā ṣāf hūa kya har aek ʻāzam-e daśt muʻāf hūa
- [Indeed] the cleansing of the sword was as if every pilgrim of the plains was forgiven
- (figuratively) pomp, hold
- Synonym: دھاک (dhāk)
- 1918, آفتابِ دمشق [āftāb-e damiśq], page 96:
- جن کی شجاعت کا لوہا تمام ملک میں مشہور تھا۔
- jin kī śujā‘at kā lohā tamām mulk meṉ maśhūr thā
- Whose pomp of courage was famous across the country.
- 2018 January 22, ڈاکٹر عبد القدیر خان [Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan], “نوادرات [navādirāt]”, in جنگ [Jang]:
- میں محسن بھائی کو بھوپال سے جانتا ہوں۔ بچپن میں ہی اپنی شاعری کا لوہا منوا لیا تھا۔
- maiṉ muḥsin bhā'ī ko bhopāl se jāntā hūṉ. bacpan meṉ hī apnī śā‘irī kā lohā manvā liya thā.
- I know [my] buddy Mohsin from Bhopal. Even in our youth, he had convinced me of his hold on poetry.
- (literally) clothes iron (appliance used by tailors and washers)[1]
Declension
Declension of لوہا | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | لوہا (lohā) | لوہے (lohe) |
oblique | لوہے (lohe) | لوہوں (lohõ) |
vocative | لوہے (lohe) | لوہو (loho) |
Adjective
لوہا • (lohā) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling लोहा)
Further reading
- جامع اللغات – Jāmiʻu l-luġāt
- “لوہا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “لوہا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لوہا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lōhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650
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