सवाल

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوال (suwāl), variant form of سؤال (su'āl), from Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl). Compare Gujarati સવાલ (savāl), Punjabi ਸਵਾਲ (savāl) / سوال (savāl).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /sə.ʋɑːl/, [sɐ.ʋäːl]
• Hyphenation: स‧वाल
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Noun

सवाल • (savāl) m (Urdu spelling سَوال)

1. question

   Synonym: प्रश्न (praśna)

   Antonym: जवाब (javāb)

   मेरा एक सवाल है। ― merā ek savāl hai. ― I have a question.

Declension

Declension of सवाल (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	सवाल savāl	सवाल, सवालात savāl, savālāt
oblique	सवाल savāl	सवालों, सवालातों savālõ, savālātõ
vocative	सवाल savāl	सवालो, सवालातो savālo, savālāto

Derived terms

• सवाल करना (savāl karnā, “to question”)

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “सवाल”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 644.
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “सवाल”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 792
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “सवाल”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 5020
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “सवाल”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 789
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सवाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 996
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سؤَال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 692
• “सवाल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “सवाल”, 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, page 1114