بکواس

Urdu

Etymology

بَکوا (bakvā, “talkative, chattery, garrulous”) +‎ ـآس (-ās, noun suffix).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bək.ʋɑːs/

Noun

بَکواس • (bakvās) f (Hindi spelling बकवास)

1. talkativeness, garrulity, chatter, blathering
2. (common) rubbish, nonsense

   کیا بکواس ہے! ― kyā bakvās hai! ― What rubbish!

   بکواس بند کرو۔ ― bakvās band karo. ― Stop this nonsense.

Derived terms

• بَکواسی (bakvāsī)

References

• “بکواس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بکواس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.