اپدیش

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit उपदेश (upadeśa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊp.d̪eːʃ/

Noun

اُپْدیش • (updeś) m (Hindi spelling उपदेश) (India, rare or obsolete)

1. advice, counsel, exhortation

   Synonyms: نَصِیحَت (nasīhat), صَلاح (salāh), تَجْویز (tajvez), مَشْوَرَہ (maśvara)

   قرآن مومنوں کے لئے اُپْدیش کے ایک کتاب ہیں

   qurān mominõ ke lie updeś ke ek kitāb ha͠i

   Quran is a book of counsel for the believers.

2. admonition, instruction, preaching
3. suggestion, direction.

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “اُپْدیش”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 9
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اپدیش”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 13
• “اُپْدیش”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.