Urdu

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Classical Persian هَلَاک (halāk), borrowed from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk), from هَلَكَ (halaka), from Proto-Semitic *halak-. First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi ہلاک (hlak /⁠halāk⁠/).[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    ہَلاک (halāk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling हलाक)

    1. killed
    2. perished; withered
    3. (figuratively) desired; wishing; dying
    4. (figuratively) wiped; destroyed; ruined

    Noun

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    ہَلاک (halākm (Hindi spelling हलाक)

    1. a killer[2]
    2. destruction; ruin[3]

    Declension

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    Declension of ہلاک
    singular plural
    direct ہَلاک (halāk) ہَلاک (halāk)
    oblique ہَلاک (halāk) ہَلاکوں (halākō̃)
    vocative ہَلاک (halāk) ہَلاکو (halākō)

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    1. ^ ہلاک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    2. ^ ہلاک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
    3. ^ The template Template:R:ur:Shakespear does not use the parameter(s):
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      John Shakespear (1834) “ہلاک”, 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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