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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian هَلَاک (halāk), borrowed from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk), from هَلَكَ (halaka), from Proto-Semitic *halak-. First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi ہلاک (hlak /halāk/).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ہَلاک • (halāk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling हलाक)
- killed
- perished; withered
- (figuratively) desired; wishing; dying
- (figuratively) wiped; destroyed; ruined
Noun
ہَلاک • (halāk) m (Hindi spelling हलाक)
- a killer[2]
- destruction; ruin[3]
Declension
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ہَلاک (halāk)
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ہَلاک (halāk)
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| oblique
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ہَلاک (halāk)
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ہَلاکوں (halākõ)
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ہَلاک (halāk)
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ہَلاکو (halāko)
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References
- ^ “ہلاک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ “ہلاک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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Further reading
More information
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہلاک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.