Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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اَمْرِت (amritm (Hindi spelling अमृत)

  1. nectar or elixir of life

Declension

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Declension of امرت
singular plural
direct اَمْرِت (amrit) اَمْرِت (amrit)
oblique اَمْرِت (amrit) اَمْرِتوں (amritō̃)
vocative اَمْرِت (amrit) اَمْرِتو (amritō)

Further reading

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  • امرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • امرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امرت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “امرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “امرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “امرت”, 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