واسطہ

See also: واسطة and واسطه

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/

Noun

واسِطَہ • (vāsita) m (Hindi spelling वास्ता)

1. anything intermediate
2. a medium; an instrument
3. a mediator; middle-man; agent; broker
4. means; motive, cause, reason, occasion
5. account, sake
6. relationship, connexion
7. business, concern

Declension

Declension of واسطہ
	singular	plural
direct	واسطہ (vāsitah)	واسطے (vāsite)
oblique	واسطے (vāsite)	واسطوں (vāsitõ)
vocative	واسطے (vāsite)	واسطو (vāsito)

Derived terms

• بواسطہ
• واسطہ رکھنا
• واسطے

 

Related terms

• واسطہ دار

Further reading

• “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.