دھوپ

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱuːp/

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• Rhymes: -uːp

Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀥𑀼𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀸 (*dhuppā). Cognate Punjabi دُھپّ (dhupp) / ਧੁੱਪ (dhuppa) and Gujarati ધૂપ (dhūp).

دُھوپ • (dhūp) f (Hindi spelling धूप)

1. sunlight, sunshine; heat of the Sun
2. (by extension) the Sun

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit धूप (dhūpa).

دُھوپ • (dhūp) m (Hindi spelling धूप)

1. incense, frankincense

• “دھوپ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دھوپ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دهوپ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 322
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دهوپ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 550
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دهوپ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 662
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دھوپ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*dhuppā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press