دباؤ

Urdu

Etymology

Related to دبانا (dabānā, “to press”). Cognate Hindi दबाव (dabāv).

Pronunciation

Noun

دباؤ • (dabāo) m (Hindi spelling दबाव)

  1. (chiefly) pressure (literal and figurative)
    1. weight
    2. power
  2. influence, control
  3. emphasis

Verb

دَباؤ • (dabāo) (Hindi spelling दबाओ)

  1. inflection of دبانا (dabānā):
    1. second-person singular informal imperative present
    2. second-person plural informal present imperative
    3. second-person plural subjunctive

References

  • “دباؤ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “دباؤ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.