آہو

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit अहो (aho).

Interjection

آہوْ • (āho) (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਹੋ)

1. yes

References

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “آہو”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

آہو

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آهُو (āhū, “gazelle”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ɦuː/

Noun

آہُو • (āhū) m (Hindi spelling आहू)

1. gazelle
2. antelope
3. deer

Derived terms

• آہُو بَرَہ (āhū bara, “fawn”)
• آہُو قَدَم (āhū qadam, “nimble as a deer”)
• آہُو نِگاہ (āhū nigāh, “beautiful eyes”, literally “eye's of a deer”)
• آہُو چَشْم (āhū caśm, “beloved”)
• آہُو گِیری (āhū gīrī, “deer-catching”)
• آہُوئے چَرْخ (āhūe carx, “sun”, literally “deer of the sky”)
• شاخِ آہُو (śāx-i āhū, “deer horn”)
• چَرْم آہُو (carm āhū, “deer-skin”)

Related terms

• گَوزَن (gauzan)

References

• “آہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “آہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “آہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.