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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi بهو (bhv /bahū/) (c. 1609),[1], from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀳𑀽 (vahū), 𑀯𑀥𑀽 (vadhū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).[2][3][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
بَہُو • (bahū) f (Hindi spelling बहू)
- daughter-in-law (son's wife)
- (by extension) bride; wife – the newly wedded wife in the family
Declension
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singular
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plural
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بَہُو (bahū)
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بَہُویں (bahūẽ)
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| oblique
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بَہُو (bahū)
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بَہُووں (bahūõ)
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| vocative
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بَہُو (bahū)
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بَہُوو (bahūo)
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Descendants
References
- ^ “بہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “بہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 194
- ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “بُـﮩو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 303
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vadhūˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
More information
- “بہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 130
- John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩو”, 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 317
