برتاؤ

Urdu

Etymology

From بَرْتانا (bartānā, “to treat; to use”) +‎ ـاؤ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɾ.t̪ɑː.oː/

Noun

بَرْتَاؤ • (bartāo) m (Hindi spelling बर्ताव)

1. behaviour, conduct

   Synonym: سَلُوک (salūk)

2. implementation
3. use, usage, application

Declension

Declension of برتاؤ
	singular	plural
direct	بَرْتَاو (bartāv)	بَرْتَاو (bartāv)
oblique	بَرْتَاو (bartāv)	بَرْتَاووں (bartāvō̃)
vocative	بَرْتَاو (bartāv)	بَرْتَاوو (bartāvō)

Further reading

• “برتاؤ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “برتاؤ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برتنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “برتاو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 145
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “برتاو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 244