واسطہ
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/
Noun edit
واسِطَہ • (vāsita) m (Hindi spelling वास्ता)
- anything intermediate
- a medium; an instrument
- a mediator; middle-man; agent; broker
- means; motive, cause, reason, occasion
- account, sake
- relationship, connexion
- business, concern
Declension edit
| Declension of واسطہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | واسطہ (vāsitah) | واسطے (vāsite) |
| oblique | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطوں (vāsitõ) |
| vocative | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطو (vāsito) |
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Further reading edit
- “واسطہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “واسطہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “واسطہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.