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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شعله (šu'la), itself from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla).
Pronunciation
Noun
شُعْلَہ • (śu'la) m (Hindi spelling शोला)
- a flame; blaze (of fire)
- Synonyms: آنچ (āṉc), لَو (lau)
c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea] (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں- yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ
- It is true that to save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task
- (figuratively) fury
Declension
Further reading
- “شعلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.