بھینس
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi بھینس (/bhē̃ns/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀳𑀺𑀲𑀻 (mahisī), from Sanskrit महिष (mahiṣa). Cognate with Nepali भैंसी (bha͠isī), Gujarati ભેંસ (bhẽs), Marathi म्हैस (mhais).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
بَھین٘س • (bha͠is) f (masculine بَھین٘سا (bha͠isā), Hindi spelling भैंस)
- buffalo
- water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
- (figuratively, derogatory) a fat woman
- a type of fish found in the Indian subcontinent
- the name of a special type of grass
Declension edit
| Declension of بھینس | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | بَھین٘س (bha͠is) | بَھین٘سیں (bha͠isẽ) |
| oblique | بَھین٘س (bha͠is) | بَھین٘سوں (bha͠isõ) |
| vocative | بَھین٘س (bha͠is) | بَھین٘سو (bha͠iso) |
Further reading edit
- “بھینس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “بھینس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Platts, John Thompson (1884) “بهينس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC - S. W. Fallon (1879) “بهينس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 310
- John Shakespear (1834) “بھینس”, 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
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mahiṣá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press