لوہا

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi لوہا (lvha /⁠lohā⁠/) (c. 1564),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀳 (loha), from Sanskrit लोह (lōhá).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

لوہا • (lohā) m (Hindi spelling लोहा)

  1. iron (Fe)
    Synonym: آہَن (āhan)
  2. (by extension) an object made from metal
    • 1989, وزیر آغا, سمندر اگر میرے اندر گرے‎, Lahore: مکتبۂ فکرِ خیال, →OCLC, page 57:
      یکایک یہ کھلونا کپڑے یا لوہے یا ربڑ یا پلاسٹک کی بنی ہوئی شے نہیں رہ جاتا بلکہ باقاعدہ سانس لینے، ہنسنے، رونے، بگڑنے یا پیار کرنے لگتا ہے۔
      yakāyak yih khilonā kapṛe yā lohe yā rabaṛ yā pilāsṭik kī banī hū'ī śai nahīṉ rah jātā balkih bāqā‘idah sāns lene, hansne, rone, bigaṛne ya pyar karne lagtā hai.
      Suddenly, this toy is no longer an object made from cloth or metal, or rubber, or plastic, but rather begins to breathe, laugh, cry, corrode or love.
  3. (figuratively) a sword
    Synonym: تَلْوَار (talvār)
    • 1880, محمد حسین جاہ, طلسمِ فصاحت‎, →OCLC, page 191:
      لوہا صاف ہوا کیا ہر ایک عازم دشت معاف ہوا
      lohā ṣāf hūa kya har aek ʻāzam-e daśt muʻāf hūa
      the cleansing of the sword was as if every pilgrim of the plains was forgiven
  4. (figuratively) pomp, hold
    Synonym: دھاک (dhāk)
    • 1918, آفتابِ دمشق, page 96:
      جن کی شجاعت کا لوہا تمام ملک میں مشہور تھا۔
      jin kī śujā‘at kā lohā tamām mulk meṉ maśhūr thā
      Whose pomp of courage was famous across the country.
    • 2018 January 22, ڈاکٹر عبد القدیر خان, “نوادرات”, in جنگ:
      میں محسن بھائی کو بھوپال سے جانتا ہوں۔ بچپن میں ہی اپنی شاعری کا لوہا منوا لیا تھا۔
      maiṉ muḥsin bhā'ī ko bhopāl se jāntā hūṉ. bacpan meṉ hī apnī śā‘irī kā lohā manvā liya thā.
      I know buddy Mohsin from Bhopal. Even in our youth, he had convinced me of his hold on poetry.
  5. (obsolete) clothes iron (appliance used by tailors and washers)[3]
    Synonym: اِسْتِری (istirī)

Declension

    Declension of لوہا
singular plural
direct لوہا (lohā) لوہے (lohe)
oblique لوہے (lohe) لوہوں (lohõ)
vocative لوہے (lohe) لوہو (loho)

Adjective

لوہا • (lohā) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling लोहा)

  1. (figuratively) strong, heavy, stiff, hard

References

  1. ^ “لوہا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lōhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650
  3. ^ جامع اللغات – Jāmiʻu l-luġāt

Further reading

More information
  • “لوہا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لوہا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “لوها”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 971
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “لوﮩـا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1056
  • John Shakespear (1834) “لوها”, 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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