شاہ نامہ

Urdu

شاہ نامہ کی ایک صفحہ
a page from the Shahnameh

Alternative forms

• شاہنامہ (śāhnāma)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاهنامه (šāhnāma, “Shahnameh”). By surface analysis, شاہ (śāh, “king”) +‎ نامہ (nāma, “history”), literally “the book of kings”.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːɦ nɑːm.ɑ(ː)/

Proper noun

شاہ نامہ • (śāh-nāma) m (Hindi spelling शाहनामा)

1. Shahnameh (an epic poem written by Ferdowsi around 1000 CE, telling the mythical and historical past of ancient Persia from the beginning of the world until the Muslim invasion)

Further reading

• “شاہ نامہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نامہ&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact شاہ نامہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “نامہ شاہ نامہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “نامہ&matchtype=default شاہ نامہ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شاہ نامہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.