چہرہ

See also: چهره

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چِهْرَه (čihra, “face; visage”).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeːɦ.ɾɑː/, /t͡ʃɪɦ.ɾɑː/, [t͡ʃɛʱ.ɾɑː]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

چہرہ • (cehrā or cihrā) m (Hindi spelling चेहरा)

  1. face, visage, countenance
  2. portrait, likeness
  3. mask, facade
  4. features, descriptive roll
  5. mien, demeanor

Declension
Declension of چہرہ
singular plural
direct چہرہ (cehrah) چہرے (cehre)
oblique چہرے (cehre) چہروں (cehrõ)
vocative چہرے (cehre) چہرو (cehro)

Synonyms

References
  • “چہرہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چہرہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “چہرہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “چہرہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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