باسن

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bāsan
Dari reading? bāsan
Iranian reading? bâsan
Tajik reading? bosan

Noun

باسن • (bâsan)

  1. (anatomy) hip
  2. (polite) buttocks

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1700 as Middle Hindi باسن (bāsan), inherited from Sanskrit वासन (vāsana). [1] [2] Cognate with Gujarati વાસણ (vāsaṇ) and Bengali বাসন (baśon).

Pronunciation

Noun

باسَن • (bāsanm (Hindi spelling बासन)

  1. vessel
    1. pot
    2. plate
    3. basin

Declension

Declension of باسن
singular plural
direct باسَن (bāsan) باسَن (bāsan)
oblique باسَن (bāsan) باسَنوں (bāsanõ)
vocative باسَن (bāsan) باسَنو (bāsano)

References

  1. ^ باسن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāsana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 676

Further reading

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