الہام

See also: إلهام and الهام

Urdu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic أَلْهَمَ (ʔalhama)
    Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām)bor.
    Classical Persian اِلْهَام (ilhām)bor.
    Urdu اِلْہَام (ilhām)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian اِلْهَام (ilhām), borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām), from أَلْهَمَ (ʔalhama). First attested in c. 1657 as Middle Hindi الہام (alham /⁠ilhām⁠/).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪl.ɦɑːm/
    • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɑːm
    • Hyphenation: اِل‧ہام

    Noun

    اِلْہَام • (ilhām) m (Hindi spelling इलहाम)

    1. (religion) revelation
    2. intuition; or occurrence.

    Declension

    Declension of الہام
    singular plural
    direct اِلْہَام (ilhām) اِلْہَام (ilhām)
    oblique اِلْہَام (ilhām) اِلْہَاموں (ilhāmõ)
    vocative اِلْہَام (ilhām) اِلْہَامو (ilhāmo)

    References

    1. ^ “الہام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

    Further reading

    • “الہام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “الہام”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
    • Platts, John T. (1884) “الہام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِلـﮩـام”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 133
    • John Shakespear (1834) “الهام”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 133
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