اداس
Old Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa). Compare Old Punjabi ਉਦਾਸੁ (udāsu), Old Marathi 𑘄𑘟𑘰𑘭 (udāsa).
Adjective edit
اُداس (udās)
Descendants edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi اداس (udās, “indifferent”), a learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʊ.d̪ɑːs/
- Rhymes: -ɑːs
- Hyphenation: اُ‧داس
Adjective edit
اُدَاس • (udās) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling उदास)
- sad, unhappy
- Antonym: خوش (xoś)
- (by extension) apathetic, unconcerned
- (by extension) lackadaisical, fatigued (of toil, labour etc.)
- grey, dull (ie. gloomy)
- (figuratively) empty, desolate, deserted
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “اداس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “اداس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اداس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اداس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “اداس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “اداس”, 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