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Arabic
Etymology
Adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, “example”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)
- for example
Descendants
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).
Adverb
مثلا • (mesela)
- as an example, for instance
Descendants
Further reading
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).
Adverb
مَثَلاً • (masalan)
- for example
Further reading
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل (masal) + ـاً (-an).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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masalan
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Dari reading?
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masalan
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Iranian reading?
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masalan
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Tajik reading?
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masalan
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Adverb
Dari
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مثلا
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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масалан
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مَثَلاً • (masalan)
- for example
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).
Adverb
مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan) (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸਲਨ)
- for example
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مثلاً”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).
Adverb
مثلا • (masalan)
- Alternative form of متلا (matalan, “for example”)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan) via Classical Persian مَثَلاً (masalan).
Pronunciation
Adverb
مَثَلاً • (masalan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)
- for example, for instance, e.g.; namely
Further reading
- “مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.