شعلہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian شُعْلَه (šu'la), borrowed from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi شعلہ (ś'lh).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃʊʕ.lɑ(ː)/, [ʃoː.lɑ(ː)]
• Hyphenation: شُعْ‧لَہ
• Homophones: شولہ (śola), شولا (śolā)

شُعْلَہ • (śu'la) m (Hindi spelling शोला)

1. a flame; blaze (of fire)

   Synonyms: جَلْوَہ (jalva), آنْچ (ānc), لَو (lau)

   • c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea]‎^[1] (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:

     یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں

     yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ

     It is true that to [try and] save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task

2. (figuratively) fury

• “شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شعله”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 728
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شعله”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 818
• John Shakespear (1834) “شعله”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC