ملکہ

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See also: ملكة, ملكه, and ملکه

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).

Noun

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

  1. queen
  2. (chess) queen

Proper noun

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

  1. a female given name, Malikah or Malika, from Arabic

See also

Chess pieces in Punjabi · شَطْرَن٘ج دے مُہرے (śat̤raṉj de muhre) (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
راجا (rājā)
بادْشاہ (bādśāh) 		وَزِیر (vazīr)
راݨی (rāṇī) 		ہاتھی (hāthī)
رُخ (rux) 		فِیلا (fīlā)
فَرْضی (farẓī) 		گھوڑا (ghoṛā) پیادَہ (peyādah)

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “ملِکہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَلِکَہ • (malika) f (masculine مَلِک (malik) or بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Hindi spelling मलिका)

  1. queen
    Synonyms: مَہَارانی (mahārānī), رانی (rānī), سُلْطَانَہ (sultāna)
    میرِی خوابوں کی مَلِکَہ ― merī xvābõ kī malika ― queen of my dreams
  2. the queen bee
  3. (chess) queen

Declension

    Declension of ملکہ
singular plural
direct مَلِکَہ (malikah) مَلِکائیں (malikā'ẽ)
oblique مَلِکَہ (malikah) مَلِکاؤں (malikāõ)
vocative مَلِکَہ (malikah) مَلِکاؤ (malikāo)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ك (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

  • “ملکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ملکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ملکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ملکه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1065
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ملکه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “ملکه”, 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
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