نقل حرفی

Urdu

Etymology

From نقل (naqal, “copy”) +‎ حرف (ḥarf, “letter”) +‎ ی (ī), literally “copying of lettering”. Compare Arabic نَقْحَر (naqḥar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nə.qəl.ɦəɾ.fiː/, /nəql.eː.ɦəɾ.fiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

نَقَل حَرْفی or نَقْلِ حَرْفی • (naqal ḥarfī or naql-e-ḥarfī) f (Hindi spelling नक़ल हर्फ़ी or नक़्ल-ए-हर्फ़ी)

1. (linguistics, neologism) transliteration

Declension

Declension of نقل حرفی

	singular	plural
direct	نقل حرفی (naqal ḥarfī)	نقل حرفِیاں (naqal ḥarfiyā̃)
oblique	نقل حرفی (naqal ḥarfī)	نقل حرفِیوں (naqal ḥarfiyō̃)
vocative	نقل حرفی (naqal ḥarfī)	نقل حرفِیو (naqal ḥarfiyō)

References

• “نقل+حرفی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.