بھاپ

Urdu

Alternative forms

  • باپھ (bāph), بھاپھ (bhāph) — obsolete

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi بھاپھہ (bhaphh /⁠bhāph⁠/) (c. 1419) and later as بھاپ (bhap /⁠bhāp⁠/),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀧𑁆𑀨 (bappha), from Sanskrit वाष्प (vāṣpa, “tear”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

بَھاپ • (bhāp) m (Hindi spelling भाप)

  1. hot breath; exhalation
  2. steam, water vapour
  3. vapour, gas

Declension

Declension of بھاپ
singular plural
direct بَھاپ (bhāp) بَھاپ (bhāp)
oblique بَھاپ (bhāp) بَھاپوں (bhāpõ)
vocative بَھاپ (bhāp) بَھاپو (bhāpo)

References

  1. ^ “بھاپ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bāṣpá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 521

Further reading

More information
  • “بھاپ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بھاپ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بهاپ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 177
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھاپ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “بھاپ”, 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
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