Urdu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit कण्टफल (kaṇṭaphala, literally thorny fruit); cognate with Assamese কঁঠাল (kõthal), Bengali কাঁঠাল (kãṭhal), Bhojpuri कटहर (kaṭᵊhar), and Odia କଠଲ (kaṭhala).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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کَٹَھل (kaṭhalm (Hindi spelling कठल or कटहल)

  1. jackfruit

Declension

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Declension of کٹھل
singular plural
direct کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) کَٹَھل (kaṭhal)
oblique کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) کَٹَھلوں (kaṭhalō̃)
vocative کَٹَھل (kaṭhal) کَٹَھلو (kaṭhalō)

Further reading

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  • کٹھل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • کٹھل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کٿهل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “کٿهل”, 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
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    S. W. Fallon (1879) “کٹھل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaṇṭaphala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 134