قبضہ

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1665 Middle Hindi قبضہ (qabza), borrowed from Classical Persian قَبْضَه (qabza, “property, fist, power”), from Arabic قَبْضَة (qabḍa, “clutch, fist, authority”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qəb.zɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: قَب‧ضَہ

Noun

قَبْضَہ • (qabza) m (Hindi spelling क़ब्ज़ा)

1. occupation; annexation, takeover
2. seizure (of property, assets, etc.)

   اس زمین پر مافیا کا قبضہ ہے۔

   is zamīn par māfiyā kā qabza hai.

   The mafia has taken over this land.

   (literally, “On this land, is the mafia's occupation.”)

3. holding; grasp
4. grip (of the hand on tools and weaponry etc.)
5. (uncommon) a handful
6. hinge (of doors and boxes etc.)
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Declension

Declension of قبضہ
	singular	plural
direct	قَبْضَہ (qabzah)	قَبْضَے (qabze)
oblique	قَبْضَے (qabze)	قَبْضَوں (qabzõ)
vocative	قَبْضَے (qabze)	قَبْضَو (qabzo)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• قبضہ کرنا (qabza karnā, “to seize”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ق ب ض‎ (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

• “قبضہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قبضہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قبضہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “قبضه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 787
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “قبضه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 881
• John Shakespear (1834) “قبضه”, 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