بہتان

Urdu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic بَهَتَ (bahata)
    Arabic بُهْتَان (buhtān)bor.
    Classical Persian بُهْتَان (buhtān)bor.
    Urdu بُہْتَان (buhtān)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian بُهْتَان (buhtān), borrowed from Arabic بُهْتَان (buhtān), from بَهَتَ (bahata).

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʊɦ.t̪ɑːn/, [boɦ.t̪ɑːn]
    • Rhymes: -ɑːn
    • Hyphenation: بُہ‧تان

    Noun

    بُہْتَان • (buhtān) m (Hindi spelling बोहतान)

    1. false accusation, slander, libel
      Synonyms: تُہْمَت (tuhmat), اِفْتِرا (iftirā)

    Declension

    Declension of بہتان
    singular plural
    direct بُہْتَان (buhtān) بُہْتَان (buhtān)
    oblique بُہْتَان (buhtān) بُہْتَانوں (buhtānõ)
    vocative بُہْتَان (buhtān) بُہْتَانو (buhtāno)

    Further reading

    • “بہتان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    • “بہتان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “بُـﮩتان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 290
    • John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩتان”, 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 300
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بہتان”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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