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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شُعْلَه (šu'la), borrowed from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi شعلہ (ś'lh).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
شُعْلَہ • (śu'la) m (Hindi spelling शोला)
- a flame; blaze (of fire)
- Synonyms: جَلْوَہ (jalva), آنْچ (ānc), لَو (lau)
c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea] (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں- yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ
- It is true that to save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task
- (figuratively) fury
Declension
References
- ^ “شعلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
- “شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “شعله”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 728
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “شعله”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 818
- John Shakespear (1834) “شعله”, 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