وے

Urdu

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit *अव (ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *avá.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

وے or وَے • (ve or vai) m pl or f pl by sense (Hindi spelling वे)

1. (obsolete) direct plural of وُہ (vuh).

Further reading

• “وے”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “وے”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “وے”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.