خمسہ

See also: خمسة, خمسه, and حمسة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa).

Adjective

خَمْسَہ • (xamsa) (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)

1. five

Noun

خَمْسَہ • (xamsa) m (Hindi spelling ख़म्सा)

1. an aggregate of five poetical pieces; a stanza of five lines

Related terms

• خمس (xums)

Further reading

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