سندھ
Urdu edit
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Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).[1] Doublet of ہِنْد (hind) and اِنْڈِیا (inḍiyā). Compare Khowar سِن (sin), Saraiki سِنّہہ (sinnh), Ushojo سندھو (sindhō).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sɪnd̪ʱ/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnd̪ʱ
Proper noun edit
سِنْدھ • (sindh) m (Hindi spelling सिंध)
- Sindh (a province of Pakistan)
- Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China)
- دَرْیَائے سِنْدھ ― daryā'e sindh ― The Indus river
- (historical) Sind, Scinde (a province of British India)
Derived terms edit
- سِنْدِھی (sindhī)
See also edit
- (administrative units of Pakistan) پاکِسْتان کی اِنْتِظامی تَقْسِیم (pākistān kī intizāmī taqsīm); آزاد کَشْمِیر (āzād kaśmīr), بَلوچِسْتان (balocistān), گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان (gilgit baltistān), اِسْلام آباد وِفاقی دارْاَلْحَکُومَت (islām ābād vifāqī dār-alhakūmat), خَیبَر پَخْتُونْخْوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā), پَنْجاب (panjāb), مَقْبُوضَہ کَشْمِیر (maqbūza kaśmīr), سِنْدھ (sindh), (Category: ur:Provinces of Pakistan)
References edit
- ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सिंध”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1012
Further reading edit
- Platts, John T. (1884) “سندهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 682
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سندهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 386
- “سندھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- John Shakespear (1834) “سندهہ”, 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, page 1104
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sindhu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 774