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Urdu
Etymology
Urdu عَقْلْمَنْد ('aqlmand)
From عَقْل ('aql, “intelligence”) + مَنْد (mand). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi عقلمند ('qlmnd).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
عَقْلْمَنْد • ('aqlmand) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling अक़्लमंद)
- intelligent, smart
- Synonyms: سَمَجْھدَار (samajhdār), ہوشِیار (hośiyār)
- cunning
References
- ^ “عقلمند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
More information
- “عقلمند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عقل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437
- Platts, John T. (1884) “عقلمند”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “عقل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “عقلمند”, 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