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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian رِشْوَه (rišwa), from Arabic رِشْوَة (rišwa). First attested in c. 1654 as Middle Hindi رشوت (rśvt).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
رِشْوَت • (riśvat) f (Hindi spelling रिश्वत)
- bribe
Declension
| Declension of رشوت
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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رِشْوَت (riśvat)
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رِشْوَتیں (riśvatẽ)
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| oblique
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رِشْوَت (riśvat)
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رِشْوَتوں (riśvatõ)
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| vocative
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رِشْوَت (riśvat)
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رِشْوَتو (riśvato)
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References
- ^ “رشوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
More information
- “رشوت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رشوت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “رشوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “رشوت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “رشوت”, 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
Ushojo
Etymology
From Urdu رشوت (rišvat).
Noun
رشوت (rišvat)
- bribe