ارادہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِرَادَه (irāda), borrowed from Arabic إِرَادَة (ʔirāda), from أَرَادَ (ʔarāda).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.ɾɑː.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [e.ɾɑː.d̪ɑː]
• Hyphenation: اِ‧رَ‧ادَہ

اِرَادَہ • (irāda) m (Hindi spelling इरादा)

1. intention
2. purpose; aim
3. desire; inclination

   Synonym: اِچّھا (icchā)

• “ارادہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ارادہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اراده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “اراده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِراده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “اراده”, 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

Borrowed from Urdu اِرَادَہ (irāda), borrowed from Classical Persian اِرَادَه (irāda), borrowed from Arabic إِرَادَة (ʔirāda), from أَرَادَ (ʔarāda).

ارادہ (erādeh)

1. intention, purpose, aim, object
2. desire, will, wish, dream, meaning, intent, intentness, volition, would