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مثلا

See also: مثلاً

Arabic

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Etymology

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Adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, “example”).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)

  1. for example

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

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مثلا • (mesela)

  1. as an example, for instance

Descendants

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Further reading

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Pashto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

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مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل (masal) +‎ ـاً (-an).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? masalan
Dari reading? masalan
Iranian reading? masalan
Tajik reading? masalan

Adverb

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Dari مثلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik масалан

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

Punjabi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

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مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan) (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸਲਨ)

  1. for example

Further reading

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  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مثلاً”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

South Levantine Arabic

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Root
م ث ل
3 terms

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

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مثلا • (masalan)

  1. Alternative form of متلا (matalan, “for example”)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan) via Classical Persian مَثَلاً (masalan).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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مَثَلاً • (masalan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)

  1. for example, for instance, e.g.; namely

Further reading

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  • “مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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