منتر
Urdu
editEtymology
editSemi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra).
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mən.t̪əɾ/
- Rhymes: -əɾ
- Hyphenation: مَن‧تَر
Noun
editمَنْتَر • (mantar) m (Hindi spelling मंत्र)
- charm, spell
- Synonym: جادو (jādū)
- incantation
- abracadabra
- (Hinduism) a passage from the Vedas
Declension
editDeclension of منتر | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | مَنْتَر (mantar) | مَنْتَر (mantar) |
oblique | مَنْتَر (mantar) | مَنْتَروں (mantarō̃) |
vocative | مَنْتَر (mantar) | مَنْتَرو (mantarō) |
References
edit- Platts, John T. (1884) “منتر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “منتر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- “منتر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منتر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “منتر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- John Shakespear (1834) “منتر”, 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