منتر

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mən.t̪əɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: مَن‧تَر

Noun

مَنْتَر • (mantar) m (Hindi spelling मंत्र)

1. charm, spell

   Synonym: جادو (jādū)

2. incantation
3. abracadabra
4. (Hinduism) a passage from the Vedas

Declension

Declension of منتر
	singular	plural
direct	مَنْتَر (mantar)	مَنْتَر (mantar)
oblique	مَنْتَر (mantar)	مَنْتَروں (mantarō̃)
vocative	مَنْتَر (mantar)	مَنْتَرو (mantarō)

References

• 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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC