قلعہ

See also: قلعه, and قلعة

Shina

Etymology

From Urdu قلعہ (qilah).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qílla/

Noun

قلعہ (qilla)

1. fort

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa)bor.

Classical Persian قَلْعَه／قِلْعَه (qal'a)bor.

Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a)

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه／قِلْعَه (qal'a), borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɪl.ʔɑ(ː)/, [qɪ.lɑː]
  • (archaic) IPA^(key): /qəl.ʔɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [kɪ.lɑː]
• Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ

Noun

قِلْعَہ • (qil'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)

1. fort, fortress, castle

   Synonyms: کوٹ (koṭ), کوٹْلَہ (koṭla), حِصار (hisār), قَصْر (qasr)

2. (chess) castle (rook)
3. a type of firework which has firecrackers

Declension

Declension of قلعہ
	singular	plural
direct	قِلْعَہ (qil'ah)	قِلْعے (qil'e)
oblique	قِلْعے (qil'e)	قِلْعوں (qil'õ)
vocative	قِلْعے (qil'e)	قِلْعو (qil'o)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• قِلْعَہ دَار (qil'a dār, “commander of a garrison”)
• قِلْعَہ جَانا (qil'a jānā, “castling”)
• قِلْعَہ بَان٘دْھنا (qil'a bā̃dhnā, “to fortify”)
• قِلْعَہ شِکَن (qil'a śikan, “siege battery”)

Descendants

• → English: qila
• → Shina: قلعہ (qilla)

Further reading

• “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
• John Shakespear (1834) “قلعه”, 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