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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اِسْتِحْکام (istihkām), from Arabic اِسْتِحْكَام (istiḥkām).
Pronunciation
Noun
اِسْتِحْکام • (istihkām) m (Hindi spelling इस्तेहकाम or इस्तहकाम)
- establishment, stability, firmness, corroboration, ratification, fastness, prolongation
- (figuratively) courage
Declension
| Declension of استحکام
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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اِسْتِحْکام (istihkām)
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اِسْتِحْکام (istihkām)
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| oblique
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اِسْتِحْکام (istihkām)
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اِسْتِحْکاموں (istihkāmõ)
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| vocative
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اِسْتِحْکام (istihkām)
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اِسْتِحْکامو (istihkāmo)
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See also
Further reading
- “استحکام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “استحکام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “استحکام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “استحکام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “استحکام”, 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