سچ

See also: سح

Gujarati

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu سچ (sac), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀘𑁆𑀘 (sacca), from Sanskrit सत्य (satyá). Doublet of સત્ય (satya).

Noun

سچ • (sac) m (Standard Gujarati સચ) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. truth

   Synonyms: صدق (sidq), سچّائي (saccāī)

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi سچ (sac, sacc /⁠sc⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀘𑁆𑀘 (sacca), from Sanskrit सत्य (satyá, “promise”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sət͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ət͡ʃ

Noun

سَچ • (sac) m (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सच)

1. truth

Derived terms

Derived terms

• سَچّا m (saccā, “truthful”, adj)
• سَچّائی (saccāī, “truth”, noun)
• سَچّی (saccī, “really”)

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: صَجّ (ṣajj) / صِجّ (ṣijj)
• → Lisan ud-Dawat Gujarati: سچ (sac)

Further reading

• “سچ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سچ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سچ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سچ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سچ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سچ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “satyá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 759