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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مرحوم (marhūm), from Arabic مَرْحُوم (marḥūm). Compare Punjabi ਮਰਹੂਮ (marhūm) / مَرحُوم (marḥūm), Gujarati મરહૂમ (marhūm), Sindhi مَرَحُومُ / मरहूम, Bengali মরহুম (morhum).
Pronunciation
Adjective
मरहूम • (marhūm) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling مَرْحُوم)
- (euphemistic) deceased, the late, dead
- Synonyms: मुरदा (murdā), मृत (mŕt), स्वर्गवासी (svargavāsī), स्वर्गीय (svargīya)
Further reading
- The template Template:R:hi:Caturvedi does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “मरहूम”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मरहूम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3801
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मरहूम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 793
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مرحوم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1021
- “मरहूम”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.