خواب گاہ
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian خْوَابْگَاه (xwābgāh). Equivalent to خْوَاب (xvāb, “dream; sleep”) + گاہ (gāh, “place; hall”). Compare Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਬਗਾਹ (xābgāh) / خْوَاب گاہ (xvāb gāh).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xʷɑːb‿ɡɑːɦ/, [xɑːb‿ɡɑːɦ]
Noun edit
خْوَاب گاہ • (xvāb gāh) f (Hindi spelling ख़्वाबगाह)
- (archaic or formal) bedchamber; bedroom
- 1983, مرزا ادیب [Mirza Adeeb], ساتواں چراغ [sātvāṉ cirāġ, The Seventh Lamp][1], →OCLC, page 198:
- اور یہ سوچتے ہی اس نے اپنی خوابگاہ کا دروازہ آہستہ سے کھولا
- aur yih socte hī us ne apnī xvābgāh kā darvāzah āhistah se kholā
- And while pondering over this, he slowly opened the door to his bedchamber
- (rare or perhaps figurative) burial ground, grave
Declension edit
| Declension of خواب گاہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | خواب گاہ (xvāb gāh) | خواب گاہیں (xvāb gāhẽ) |
| oblique | خواب گاہ (xvāb gāh) | خواب گاہوں (xvāb gāhõ) |
| vocative | خواب گاہ (xvāb gāh) | خواب گاہو (xvāb gāho) |
Further reading edit
- “خواب+گاہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “KHvaab-gaah”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خواب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.