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Urdu
Etymology
Feminine of دُلْہا (dulhā, “bridegroom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
دُلْہَن • (dulhan) f (Hindi spelling दुल्हन)
- bride
- daughter-in-law (son's wife)
- (figuratively) daughter
Declension
Declension of دلہن
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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دُلْہَن (dulhan)
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دُلْہَنیں (dulhanẽ)
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| oblique
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دُلْہَن (dulhan)
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دُلْہَنوں (dulhanõ)
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| vocative
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دُلْہَن (dulhan)
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دُلْہَنو (dulhano)
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Further reading
- “دلہن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دلہن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دلہن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 312
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دلہن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 524
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “داﮩن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 636
- John Shakespear (1834) “دلـﮩن”, 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
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “durlabha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 368