نعم البدل
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
From نِعَم (ni’am, “blessing”) + ال (al) + بَدَل (badal, “exchange”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nɪʕ.mʊl.bə.d̪əl/, /nɪʕ.məl.bə.d̪əl/, [neː.mʊl.bə.d̪əl], [neː.məl.bə.d̪əl]
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -əl
Noun edit
نِعْمُ البَدَل or نِعْمَ البَدَل • (ni’mu lbadal or ni’ma lbadal) m (Hindi spelling नेमुल बदल or नेमल बदल) (idiomatic)
- better alternative, change for the better (especially, but not limited to, after incurring a loss)
- 1891, محمد ذکا اللہ [Muḥammad Z̲akāʼullāh], محاسن الاخلاق [maḥāsin alixlāq][1], →OCLC, page 722:
- نوجوان عورت کا بچّہ مرجائے تو اُس کو خدا سے نعم البدل ملنے کی امید رکھنی چاہیے۔
- naujawān ‘aurat kā baccah marjā'ye to us ko xudā se niʻmu lbadal milne kī ummīd rakhnī cāhīye.
- If a young woman's child dies, she should hope to receive a better return from God.
- better substitute, replacement
- 1944, آدمی اور مشین [ādamī aur maśīn], →OCLC, page 254:
- ایک شعبہ ایسا ہے جس میں معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ مہارت ختم ہو گئی ہے اور اس کا ہمیں کوئی نعم البدل نہیں ملا ہے۔
- aik śuʻbah āisā hai jis meṉ maʻlūm hotā hai kih mahārat xatm ho ga'ī hai āur us kā hameṉ ko'ī niʻmu lbadal nahīṉ milā hai.
- There is a department in which expertise seems to have diminished and we have had no such replacement.
Declension edit
| Declension of نعم البدل | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) |
| oblique | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدلوں (ni’mu lbadalō̃) |
| vocative | نعم البدل (ni’mu lbadal) | نعم البدلو (ni’mu lbadalō) |
Further reading edit
- “نعم البدل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ne'mul-badal”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- The template Template:R:ur:Qureshi does not use the parameter(s):
p=644
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نعم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co. - Platts, John T. (1884) “نعم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “نعم”, 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