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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بُهْتَان (buhtān), borrowed from Arabic بُهْتَان (buhtān), from بَهَتَ (bahata).
Pronunciation
Noun
بُہْتَان • (buhtān) m (Hindi spelling बोहतान)
- false accusation, slander, libel
- Synonyms: تُہْمَت (tuhmat), اِفْتِرا (iftirā)
Declension
Declension of بہتان
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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بُہْتَان (buhtān)
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بُہْتَان (buhtān)
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| oblique
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بُہْتَان (buhtān)
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بُہْتَانوں (buhtānõ)
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| vocative
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بُہْتَان (buhtān)
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بُہْتَانو (buhtāno)
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Further reading
- “بہتان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “بہتان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بُـﮩتان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 290
- John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩتان”, 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, page 300
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بہتان”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]