آہو

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit अहो (aho).

Interjection

آہوْ • (āho) (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਹੋ)

  1. yes

References

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “آہو”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آهُو (āhū, “gazelle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

آہُو • (āhū) m (Hindi spelling आहू)

  1. gazelle
  2. antelope
  3. deer

Derived terms

  • آہُو بَرَہ (āhū bara, “fawn”)
  • آہُو قَدَم (āhū qadam, “nimble as a deer”)
  • آہُو نِگاہ (āhū nigāh, “beautiful eyes”, literally “eye's of a deer”)
  • آہُو چَشْم (āhū caśm, “beloved”)
  • آہُو گِیری (āhū gīrī, “deer-catching”)
  • آہُوئے چَرْخ (āhūe carx, “sun”, literally “deer of the sky”)
  • شاخِ آہُو (śāx-i āhū, “deer horn”)
  • چَرْم آہُو (carm āhū, “deer-skin”)

References

  • “آہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “آہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “آہو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
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