منشیہ

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà). Doublet of مَنُکھ (manukh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.nʊʃ.jɑ(ː)/

Noun

مَنُشیَہ • (manuśya) m (Hindi spelling मनुष्य) (rare or chiefly India, literary)

1. human, man

   Synonyms: اِنْسَان (insān), مَرْد (mard), مانَو (mānau), بَنْدَہ (banda), مَنُکھ (manukh), مانَو (mānau), آدْمِی (ādmī)

Declension

Declension of منشیہ

	singular	plural
direct	مَنُشیَہ (manuśyah)	مَنُشیے (manuśye)
oblique	مَنُشیے (manuśye)	مَنُشیوں (manuśyõ)
vocative	مَنُشیے (manuśye)	مَنُشیو (manuśyo)

Further reading

• “منشیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “منشیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “منشيه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1077