فقرہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فِقْرَه (fiqra), from Arabic فِقْرَة (fiqra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fɪq.ɾɑ(ː)/
• (Punjabic Urdu, Delhi Urdu) IPA^(key): [fɪk.ɾɑː]
• Hyphenation: فِق‧رَہ

Noun

فِقْرَہ • (fiqra) m (formal plural فِقْرَات (fiqrāt), Hindi spelling फ़िक़रा)

1. line; phrase; sentence
2. (rare) a paragraph
3. witticism; witty remark; glib talk
4. (anatomy) vertebra

Declension

Declension of فقرہ
	singular	plural
direct	فِقْرہ (fiqrah)	فِقْرے (fiqre)
oblique	فِقْرے (fiqre)	فِقْروں (fiqrõ)
vocative	فِقْرے (fiqre)	فِقْرو (fiqro)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• فِقْرَہ بَنْدی (fiqra bandī, “arrangement; eloquence; construction of a sentence”)
• فِقْرہ باز (fiqrebāz, “a cheat”)
• فِقْرہ بازی (fiqrebāzī, “deception”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ف ق ر‎ (0 c, 2 e)

Further reading

• “فقرہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “فقرہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فقرہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “فقره”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 456
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “فقره”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 873
• John Shakespear (1834) “فقره”, 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