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Urdu
Etymology
First attested in c. 1500 as Middle Hindi لہو (luhū /lhū/) / لوہو (lohū), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀳𑀺𑀅 (lohia), ultimately from Sanskrit लोहित (lṓhita), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwdʰitas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Pronunciation
Noun
لَہُو • (lahū) m (Hindi spelling लहू)
- blood
- Synonyms: خُون (xūn), رَکْت (rakt), دم (dam)
- (figuratively) blood, nature (characteristic or personality etc.)
- Synonyms: فِطْرَت (fiṭrat), سَرِشْت (sariśt), خَمِیر (xamīr)
- (figuratively) blood, family relationship
Declension
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plural
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لَہُو (lahū)
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لَہُو (lahū)
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| oblique
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لَہُو (lahū)
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لَہُووں (lahūõ)
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لَہُو (lahū)
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لَہُوو (lahūo)
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Further reading
- “لہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “لہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “لہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650