قلعہ
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
قلعہ (qilla)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قلعه (qal'a, qil'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) or قِلْعَة (qilʕa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qɪl.ʔɑ(ː)/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /qɪ.lɑː/
- (archaic) IPA(key): /qəl.ʔɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ
Noun
قِلْعَہ • (qil'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)
Declension
| Declension of قلعہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | قِلْعَہ (qil'ah) | قِلْعے (qil'e) |
| oblique | قِلْعے (qil'e) | قِلْعوں (qil'õ) |
| vocative | قِلْعے (qil'e) | قِلْعو (qil'o) |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- قِلْعَہ دَار (qil'a dār, “commander of a garrison”)
- قِلْعَہ جَانا (qil'a jānā, “castling”)
- قِلْعَہ بَان٘دْھنا (qil'a bā̃dhnā, “to fortify”)
- قِلْعَہ شِکَن (qil'a śikan, “siege battery”)
Descendants
References
- “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “قلعه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
- John Shakespear (1834) “قلعه”, 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