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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀧𑁆𑀨 (bappha), from Sanskrit वाष्प (vāṣpa, “tear”).[1] First attested in c. 1419 as Middle Hindi بھاپھہ (bhaphh /bhāph/) and later as بھاپ (bhap /bhāp/).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
بَھاپ • (bhāp) m (Hindi spelling भाप)
- hot breath; exhalation
- steam, water vapour
- vapour, gas
Declension
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plural
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بَھاپ (bhāp)
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بَھاپ (bhāp)
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بَھاپ (bhāp)
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بَھاپوں (bhāpõ)
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بَھاپ (bhāp)
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بَھاپو (bhāpo)
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References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bāṣpá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 521
- ^ “بھاپ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
More information
- “بھاپ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بھاپ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بهاپ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 177
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھاپ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “بھاپ”, 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