اژدہا

See also: اژدها

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀 (aži.dahāka)der.

Classical Persian اَژْدَهَا (aždahā)bor.

Urdu اَژْدَہا (aźdahā)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَژْدَهَا (aždahā). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi اژدہا (aždha).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əʒ.d̪ə.ɦɑː/, [əz.d̪ə.ɦɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: اَژ‧دَ‧ہا

Noun

اَژْدَہا • (aźdahā) m (Hindi spelling अज़दहा)

1. dragon
2. a very large snake; python; boa

   Synonym: اجگر (ajgar)

Declension

Declension of اژدہا

	singular	plural
direct	اَژْدَہا (aźdahā)	اَژْدَہے (aźdahe)
oblique	اَژْدَہے (aźdahe)	اَژْدَہوں (aźdahõ)
vocative	اَژْدَہے (aźdahe)	اَژْدَہو (aźdaho)

Further reading

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