शिकस्त
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian شکست (šikast), past stem of the verb شکستن (šekastan, “to break”), from Middle Persian škstn' (škastan, “to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd-, an extension of the root *skey-. Compare Punjabi ਸ਼ਿਕਸਤ (śiksat), Gujarati શિકસ્ત (śikast), Marathi शिकस्त (śikasta).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
शिकस्त • (śikast) f (Urdu spelling شکست)
Declension edit
Declension of शिकस्त (fem cons-stem)
Derived terms edit
- शिकस्त खाना (śikast khānā)
- शिकस्त देना (śikast denā)
- शिकस्त होना (śikast honā)
Related terms edit
References edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शिकस्त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press