ہاتھ

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi ہاتھ (hāth) / ہات (hāt) / ہَتھ (hath) / ہَت (hat), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀢𑁆𑀣 (hattha), from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰés-to- (“hand”), from *ǵʰes-. Doublet of دَسْت (dast).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɑːt̪ʰ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪ʰ

Noun

ہَاتھ • (hāth) m (Hindi spelling हाथ)

1. (anatomy) hand
2. claw (of an animal)
3. (figuratively) source of help
4. (figuratively) help; access
5. (figuratively) force (power; strength, of a nation for instance)
6. (figuratively) intervention
7. (figuratively) contribution

Declension

Declension of ہاتھ
	singular	plural
direct	ہاتھ (hāth)	ہاتھ (hāth)
oblique	ہاتھ (hāth)	ہاتھوں (hāthō̃)
vocative	ہاتھ (hāth)	ہاتھو (hāthō)

Further reading

• “ہاتھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ہاتھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہاتهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “هاتهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ﮩـاتهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1193
• John Shakespear (1834) “هاتهہ”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hasta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811