برہا

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Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit विरह (viraha).

Pronunciation

Noun

بِرْہا (birhām (Hindi spelling बिरहा)

  1. absence
  2. seperation (from a lover)
  3. A genre of Bhojpuri folk music.

Declension

    Declension of برہا
singular plural
direct بِرْہا (birhā) بِرْہے (birhe)
oblique بِرْہے (birhe) بِرْہوں (birhõ)
vocative بِرْہے (birhe) بِرْہو (birho)

Further reading

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “برها”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برہا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 150
  • برہا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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    John Shakespear (1834) “برہا”, 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
  • برہا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.