مقصود

Derived from the passive participle of the verb قَصَدَ (qaṣada, “to mean, to intend, to aim at”).

• IPA^(key): /maq.sˤuːd/

مَقْصُود • (maqṣūd) (feminine مَقْصُودَة (maqṣūda), masculine plural مَقْصُودُونَ (maqṣūdūna), feminine plural مَقْصُودَات (maqṣūdāt))

1. aimed at, intended
2. intentional, deliberate, designed

• نَكِرَة مَقْصُودَة (nakira(t) maqṣūda)
• نَكِرَة غَيْر مَقْصُودَة (nakira(t) ḡayr maqṣūda)

مَقْصُود • (maqṣūd) m

1. aim, intention, goal, purpose

• → Bashkir: мәҡсүт (məqsüt)
• → Persian: مقصود (maqsud)
  • → Bengali: মকসুদ (moksud)
  • → Hindi: मक़सूद (maqsūd)
  • → Urdu: مَقْصُود (maqsūd)
• → Malay: مقصود (maksud)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَقْصُود (maqsūd), from Arabic مَقْصُود (maqṣūd).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məq.suːd̪/
• Rhymes: -uːd̪
• Hyphenation: مَق‧صُود

مَقْصُود • (maqsūd) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मक़्सूद)

1. proposed, intended; wished
2. desired (connoted with beloved)

مَقْصُود • (maqsūd) m (Hindi spelling मक़्सूद)

1. aim; object; intent; aim; view

• “مقصود”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مقصود”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مقصود”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مقصود”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “مقصود”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC