Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha).

Proper noun edit

کُمْبھ (kumbhm (Hindi spelling कुंभ)

  1. (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius

Derived terms edit

See also edit

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 edit

  • 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