Urdu

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Etymology

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Urdu verb set
ٹَلْنا (ṭalnā)
ٹالْنا (ṭālnā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀝𑀸𑀮𑀤𑀺 (ṭāladi, removes, frightens away), from Sanskrit टालयति (ṭālayati, cause to move).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ٹالْنا (ṭālnā) (transitive, Hindi spelling टालना)

  1. to defer, postpone or procrastinate
  2. to prevaricate, evade or avert

Conjugation

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  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

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  • ٹالنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ٹالنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ٹالنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ٹالنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ṭálati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press