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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شیشه (šīša), from Middle Persian. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi شیشہ (śyśh).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
شِیشَہ • (śīśa) m (Hindi spelling शीशा)
- glass
- window; pane
- Synonym: کِھڑْکی (khiṛkī)
- mirror
- Synonym: آئینہ (ā'īna)
- (by extension automotive) windscreen; windshield; window
- glass bottle
- Synonym: بوتل (botal) (any bottle)
- eyepiece; lens; eyeglasses
- Synonym: عَینَک (’ainak)
- (figuratively) heart
- hookah
- Synonym: حُقَّہ (huqqa)
Declension
| Declension of شیشہ
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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شِیشَہ (śīśah)
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شِیشے (śīśe)
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| oblique
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شِیشے (śīśe)
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شِیشوں (śīśõ)
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| vocative
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شِیشے (śīśe)
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شِیشو (śīśo)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ “شیشہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
- “شیشہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شيشہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “شيشه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 740
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “شيشه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 826
- John Shakespear (1834) “شيشه”, 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