شلیہ

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शल्य (śalya, “spear; javelin; arrow”).

Distantly related to Ancient Greek κῆλον (kêlon, “shafts (of arrows)”), Old Prussian kelian (“spear”), Old Norse hali, Albanian thel.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəl.jɑ(ː)/

Proper noun

شلیہ • (śalya) m (Hindi spelling शल्य)

1. Shalya, the legendary king of Madra (in north-central Punjab whose capital was Sialkot) and the Indus in the Mahabharata, who led the Kaurava army against the Pandava usurpers in the east

   ہمارے کشور کے لیے زیادہ سے زیادہ راجہ شلیہ جیسے مرد ہونے چاہئیں ہے

   hamāre kiśvar ke liye zyāda se zyāda rāja śalya jaise mard hone cāh'ī̃ he

   let there be many men like king Shalya for our fatherland

   کس کی فرہ ہمارے شہنشاہ شلیہ سے بہترین ہے

   kis kī farrah hamāre śehanśāh śalya se behtarīn hai?

   whose glory is greater than our king of kings, Shalya?

Related terms

• کورو (kaurav)
• کرو (kurū)
• کرو کشیتر (kurū-kśetr)
• پانڈو (pānḍav)

References

• “شلیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شلیہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “شلیہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “شلیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.