برتاؤ
Urdu
Etymology
From بَرْتانا (bartānā, “to treat; to use”) + ـاؤ.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bəɾ.t̪ɑː.oː/
Noun
بَرْتَاؤ • (bartāo) m (Hindi spelling बर्ताव)
- behaviour, conduct
- Synonym: سَلُوک (salūk)
- implementation
- use, usage, application
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | بَرْتَاو (bartāv) | (bartāv) |
| oblique | (bartāv) | (bartāvõ) |
| vocative | (bartāv) | (bartāvo) |
Further reading
- “برتاؤ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “برتاؤ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برتنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “برتاو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 145
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “برتاو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 244