تکیہ نشین
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian تَکْیَهنِشِین (takya-nišīn).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ək.jə nɪ.ʃiːn/.
Noun edit
تَکْیَہ نِشِین • (takya niśīn) m (Hindi spelling तक्या निशीन)
- a faqīr, a dervish
- Synonym: تَکْیَہ دار (takya dār)
Further reading edit
- Platts, John T. (1884) “تکيه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.