Urdu

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha).

Proper noun

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کُمْبھ (kumbhm (Hindi spelling कुंभ)

  1. (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius

Derived terms

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See also

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Zodiac signs in Urdu · بُرْج (burj) (layout · text)
       
ہَمَل (hamal) ثَور (saur) جَوزا (jauzā) سَرْطان (sartān)
       
اَسَد (asad) سُن٘بَلَہ (sumbala) مِیزان (mīzān) عَقْرَب ('aqrab)
       
قَوس (qaus) جَدی (jadī) دِلُّو (dillū) حُوت (hūt)

Further reading

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  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “کُمبهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 944
  • کمبھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کمبهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 847
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کمبهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 496
  • کمبھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “کمبهہ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC