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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi بھینس (bhyns /⁠bhē̃ns⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀳𑀺𑀲𑀻 (mahisī), from Sanskrit महिष (mahiṣa). Cognate with Nepali भैंसी (bha͠isī), Gujarati ભેંસ (bhẽs), Marathi म्हैस (mhais), Punjabi مھینس (mhaiṉs).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَھین٘س (bha͠isf (masculine بَھین٘سا (bha͠isā), Hindi spelling भैंस)

  1. buffalo
  2. water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
  3. (figuratively, derogatory) a fat woman
  4. a type of fish found in the Indian subcontinent
  5. the name of a special type of grass

Declension

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    Declension of بھینس
singular plural
direct بَھین٘س (bha͠is) بَھین٘سیں (bha͠isẽ)
oblique بَھین٘س (bha͠is) بَھین٘سوں (bha͠isõ)
vocative بَھین٘س (bha͠is) بَھین٘سو (bha͠iso)

Further reading

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  • بھینس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • بھینس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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    Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهينس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بهينس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 201
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “بهينس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 310
  • John Shakespear (1834) “بھینس”, 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
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mahiṣá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press