سندھ
Urdu
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سندھ
بحیرہ عرب
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).[1] Doublet of ہِنْد (hind) and اِنْڈِیا (inḍiyā). Compare Khowar سِن (sin), Saraiki سِنّہہ (sinnh), Ushojo سندھو (sindhō).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sɪnd̪ʱ/
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnd̪ʱ
Proper noun
سِنْدھ • (sindh) m (Hindi spelling सिंध)
- Sindh (a province of Pakistan)
- Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China)
- دَرْیَائے سِنْدھ ― daryā'e sindh ― The Indus river
- (historical) Sind, Scinde (a province of British India)
Derived terms
- سِنْدِھی (sindhī)
See also
provinces and territories of Pakistan: پاکِسْتان کی اِنْتِظامی تَقْسِیمیں (pākistān kī intizāmī taqsīmẽ)edit
- آزاد کَشْمِیر (āzād kaśmīr)
- اِسْلام آباد وِفاقی دارْاَلْحَکُومَت (islām ābād vifāqī dār-alhakūmat)
- بَلوچِسْتان (balocistān)
- خَیبَر پَخْتُونْخْوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā)
- سِنْدھ (sindh)
- پَنْجاب (panjāb)
- گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان (gilgit baltistān)
References
- ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सिंध”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1012
Further reading
- Platts, John T. (1884) “سندهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 682
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سندهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 386
- “سندھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- John Shakespear (1834) “سندهہ”, 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 1104
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sindhu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 774