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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi ہاتھ (hath) c. 1503 / ہات (hāt) c. 1503 / ہَتھ (hath) / ہَت (hat),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀢𑁆𑀣 (hattha), from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta),[2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰés-to- (“hand”), from *ǵʰes-. Doublet of دَسْت (dast).
Cognate with Punjabi ہَتھّ / ਹੱਥ (hattha). Wider cognates include Pashto لاس (lâs), Persian دست (dast).
Pronunciation
Noun
ہَاتھ • (hāth) m (Hindi spelling हाथ)
- (anatomy) hand
- claw (of an animal)
- (figuratively) source of help
- (figuratively) help; access
- (figuratively) force (power; strength, of a nation for instance)
- (figuratively) intervention
- (figuratively) contribution
Declension
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plural
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ہاتھ (hāth)
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ہاتھ (hāth)
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| oblique
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ہاتھ (hāth)
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ہاتھوں (hāthõ)
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ہاتھ (hāth)
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ہاتھو (hātho)
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References
- ^ “ہاتھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hasta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811
Further reading
More information
- “ہاتھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہاتهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “هاتهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1845
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ﮩـاتهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1193
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