اعلی

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَعْلَى (ʔaʕlā).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? a'lā
Dari reading? a'lā
Iranian reading? a'lâ
Tajik reading? aʾlo

Adjective

Dari اعلی
Iranian Persian
Tajik аъло

اعلی • (a'lâ)

  1. superior

Descendants

  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: आला (ālā)
    Urdu: اعلیٰ (a’lá)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَعْلیٰ (a'lā), from Arabic أَعْلَى (ʔaʕlā).

Pronunciation

Adjective

اَعْلیٰ • (a'lā) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling आला)

  1. greatest; highest
  2. supreme, chief
  3. dignified; loftiest
  4. (slang) great, brilliant; excellent

Further reading

  • “اعلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “اعلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اعلیٰ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “اعلي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 61
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