منقطع

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُنْقَطِع (munqati'), from Arabic مُنْقَطِع (munqaṭiʕ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊn.qə.t̪ɪʔ/, [mʊn.qə.t̪e]
• (common) IPA^(key): /mʊn.qə.t̪ɑ(ː)/, [mʊn.kə.t̪ɑː]
• Hyphenation: مُن‧قَ‧طِع

Adjective

مُنْقَطِع • (munqati') (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मुनक़ते)

1. severed, cut off
2. concluded, settled, decided
3. disconnected (ie. interrupted)
4. finished, terminated
5. extinct
6. conclusive
7. stopped (of loss of blood)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ق ط ع‎ (0 c, 2 e)

Further reading

• “منقطع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “منقطع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منقطع”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “منقطع”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “منقطع”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “منقطع”, 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