لہو
Urdu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
First attested in c. 1500. as Middle Hindi لہو (luhū /lhū/) / لوہو (lohū), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀳𑀺𑀅 (lohia), ultimately from Sanskrit लोहित (lṓhita), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwdʰitas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /lə.ɦuː/
Audio (PK) (file) - Hyphenation: لَ‧ہُو
- Rhymes: -uː
Noun edit
لَہُو • (lahū) m (Hindi spelling लहू)
- blood
- (figuratively) blood, nature (characteristic or personality etc.)
- (figuratively) blood, family relationship
Declension edit
| Declension of لہو | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | لَہُو (lahū) | لَہُو (lahū) |
| oblique | لَہُو (lahū) | لَہُووں (lahūō̃) |
| vocative | لَہُو (lahū) | لَہُوو (lahūō) |
Further reading edit
- “لہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “لہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “لہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.John Shakespear (1834) “لـﮩو”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC - Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650