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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀳 (dullaha), ultimately from Sanskrit दुर्लभक (durlabhaka, literally "hard to attain or gain"), from दुर्- (dur-, “hardly”) + लभक (labhaka, “attained”), itself a compound of the root लभ् (labh, “to gain, attain”) + -क (-ka, adjectival suffix from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-kas).
Pronunciation
Noun
دُولْہا • (dūlhā) m (feminine دُلْہَن (dulhan), Hindi spelling दूल्हा)
- bridegroom; groom
Declension
Further reading
- “دولہا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دولہا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دولہا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 318
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دولها”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 535
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دولـﮩـا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 650
- John Shakespear (1834) “دولہا”, 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