مفہوم

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مفهوم (mafhūm), from Arabic مَفْهُوم (mafhūm).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məf.ɦuːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm
• Hyphenation: مَف‧ہوم

Noun

مَفْہُوم • (mafhūm) m (formal plural مَفاہِیم (mafāhīm), Hindi spelling मफ़हूम)

1. concept
2. context; meaning

Declension

Declension of مفہوم
	singular	plural
direct	مَفْہُوم (mafhūm)	مَفْہُوم (mafhūm)
oblique	مَفْہُوم (mafhūm)	مَفْہُوموں (mafhūmō̃)
vocative	مَفْہُوم (mafhūm)	مَفْہُومو (mafhūmō)

Further reading

• “مفہوم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مفہوم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مفہوم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.