بچہ

See also: بچه

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بچه (bačča), from Middle Persian wck' (waččag, “child, baby, cub”), from Proto-Iranian *wacáh (“calf”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *watsás.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bət̪.t͡ʃɑ(ː)/

Noun

بَچَّہ • (bacca) m (feminine بَچی (bacī), Hindi spelling बच्चा)

1. kid
2. child, boy (of any creature)
3. young (of an animal)
4. (figuratively) the result, creation
5. a sapling, young plant

Declension

Declension of بچہ
	singular	plural
direct	بَچّہ (baccah)	بَچّے (bacce)
oblique	بَچّے (bacce)	بَچّوں (baccõ)
vocative	بَچّے (bacce)	بَچّو (bacco)

Adjective

بَچَّہ • (bacca) (feminine بچی, Hindi spelling बच्चा)

1. (figuratively, belittling) stupid; kid
2. (figuratively, belittling) unaware, inexperienced

Further reading

• “بچہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بچہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بچہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.