حدیث

See also: حديث

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ha.ˈdiːs/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.d̪íːs]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d̪íːs]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d̪ís]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.d̪íːs]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.d̪ís]

Readings
Classical reading^?	hadīs
Dari reading^?	hadīs
Iranian reading^?	hadis
Tajik reading^?	hadis

Noun

حدیث • (hadis) (plural احادیث (ahâdis), Tajik spelling ҳадис)

(archaic) story, news
Synonym: خبر (xabar)
(Islam) hadith

Descendants

→ Assamese: হাদিছ (hadis)
→ Bengali: হদিস (hodiś), হাদিস (hadiś)
→ Chagatai: حدیث
- Uyghur: ھەدىس (hedis)
- Uzbek: hadis
→ Gujarati: હદીસ (hadīs)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: हदीस (hadīs)

Urdu: حَدِیث (hadīs)
→ Kazakh: хадис (xadis)
→ Kyrgyz: хадис (hadis)
→ Marathi: हदीस (hadīs)
→ Odia: ହଦୀଶ (hadiśa), ହଦୀଶ୍ (hadiś)
→ Ottoman Turkish: حدیث (hadis)
- Turkish: hadis
  - → Polish: hadis
→ Pashto: حديث (hadis)
→ Russian: хади́с (xadís)
→ Tamil: ஹதீஸ் (hatīs)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (haḏīs), from Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.d̪iːs/
Rhymes: -iːs
Hyphenation: حَ‧دِیث

Noun

حَدِیث • (hadīs) f (formal plural اَحَادِیث (ahādīs), Hindi spelling हदीस)

a narration (ie. statement)
(Islam) hadith

Declension

Declension of **حدیث**
	singular	plural
direct	حَدِیث (hadīs)	حَدِیثیں (hadīsẽ)
oblique	حَدِیث (hadīs)	حَدِیثوں (hadīsõ)
vocative	حَدِیث (hadīs)	حَدِیثو (hadīso)

Further reading

“حدیث”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“حدیث”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حدیث”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.