तहलका

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَهْلُكَة (tahluka).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.ɦəl.kɑː/, [t̪ɛ.ɦɛl.käː]

Noun

तहलका • (tahalkā) m (Urdu spelling تہلکہ)

1. panic, hysteria
2. excitement

   तहलका मचाना ― tahalkā macānā ― to cause alarm; to cause excitement

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तहलका”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 442