लंपट
Hindi edit
Alternative forms edit
- लम्पट (lampaṭ)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Sanskrit लम्पट (lampaṭa).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
लंपट • (lampaṭ) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling لَمْپَٹ) (also used in colloquial language)
- lustful, unchaste, addicted to sexual pleasure
- Synonym: कामी (kāmī)
- greedy
- (by extension) "one who is greedy [for little things]"
- insensible
- idiot
- अबे लंपट! ― abe lampaṭ! ― Oh you idiot!
- (by extension) "one who is greedy [for little things]"
Further reading edit
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “लंपट”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- Platts, John T. (1884) “लम्पट”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “लंपट”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- “लम्पट”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.