پریم

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रेमन् (preman) through Old Hindi प्रेम (prema).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾeːm/, /pɾeːm/
Rhymes: -eːm

Noun

پریم • (parem or prem) m (Hindi spelling प्रेम)

love
Synonyms: پْیار (pyār), عِشْق ('iśq), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)

Further reading

“پریم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پريم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “प्रेम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Platts, John T. (1884) “پريم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

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