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Urdu
Etymology
First attested in c. 1665 Middle Hindi قبضہ (qabza), borrowed from Classical Persian قَبْضَه (qabza, “property, fist, power”), from Arabic قَبْضَة (qabḍa, “clutch, fist, authority”).
Pronunciation
Noun
قَبْضَہ • (qabza) m (Hindi spelling क़ब्ज़ा)
- occupation; annexation, takeover
- seizure (of property, assets, etc.)
اس زمین پر مافیا کا قبضہ ہے۔- is zamīn par māfiyā kā qabza hai.
- The mafia has taken over this land.
- (literally, “On this land, is the mafia's occupation.”)
- holding; grasp
- grip (of the hand on tools and weaponry etc.)
- (uncommon) a handful
- hinge (of doors and boxes etc.)
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Further reading
- “قبضہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “قبضہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قبضہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “قبضه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 787
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “قبضه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 881
- John Shakespear (1834) “قبضه”, 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