آہو

Urdu

آہو

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ɦuː/

Noun

آہو • (āhū) m (Hindi spelling आहू)

1. gazelle
2. antelope
3. deer

Derived terms

Derived terms

• آہُو بَرَہ (āhū-bara, “fawn”)
• آہُو گِیری (āhū-gīrī, “deer-catching”)
• 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”)
• آہُوئے چَرخْ (āhū-e-carx, “sun”, literally “deer of the sky”)
• چرم آہو (carm-e-āhū, “deer-skin”)
• شاخِ آہوُ (śax-e-āhū, “deer horn”)

Related terms

• گوزن (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 Thompson (1884) “آہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “آہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.