گردہ

See also: گرده

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian گُرْدَه (gurda).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʊɾ.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: گُر‧دَه

Noun

گُرْدَہ • (gurda) m (Hindi spelling गुर्दा)

1. kidney
2. (figuratively) audacity, courage

Declension

Declension of گردہ
	singular	plural
direct	گُرْدہ (gurdah)	گُرْدے (gurde)
oblique	گُرْدے (gurde)	گُرْدوں (gurdõ)
vocative	گُرْدے (gurde)	گُرْدو (gurdo)

Further reading

• “گردہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گردہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گردہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “گرده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 903
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “گرده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 995
• John Shakespear (1834) “گردہ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC