فرشتہ

See also: فرشته

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi فرشتہ (firiśta), borrowed from Classical Persian فِرِشْتَه (firišta), from Middle Persian plystk' (frēstag).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.ɾɪʃ.t̪ɑ(ː)/
  • (dated) IPA^(key): /fɪ.ɾɪʃ.t̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: فَِ‧رِشْ‧تَہ

Noun

فَرِشْتَہ • (fariśta) m (formal plural فِرِشْتگان, Hindi spelling फ़रिश्ता)

1. angel

   Synonym: مَلَک (malak)

2. (figuratively) a pure-hearted person.
3. (by extension) a messenger, apostle

Declension

Declension of فرشتہ
	singular	plural
direct	فَرِشْتہ (fariśtah)	فَرِشْتے (fariśte)
oblique	فَرِشْتے (fariśte)	فَرِشْتوں (fariśtõ)
vocative	فَرِشْتے (fariśte)	فَرِشْتو (fariśto)

Further reading

• “فرشتہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “فرشتہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فرشتہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “فرشته”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “فرشته”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “فرشته”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC