چمچہ

See also: چمچه

Baluchi

Noun

چمچہ • (camca)

1. spoon

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَمْچَه (čamča), from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəm.t͡ʃɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: چَم‧چَہ

Noun

چَمْچَہ • (camca) m (Hindi spelling चम्चा)

1. (figuratively) pet, puppet; stooge
2. alternative form of چَمَچ (camac, “spoon”)

Declension

Declension of چمچہ

	singular	plural
direct	چَمْچَہ (camcah)	چَمْچے (camce)
oblique	چَمْچے (camce)	چَمْچوں (camcõ)
vocative	چَمْچے (camce)	چَمْچو (camco)

Further reading

• “چمچہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چمچہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چمچہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.