عقلمند

Urdu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic عَقَلَ (ʕaqala)
    Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql)bor.
    Classical Persian عَقْل (aql)bor.
    Urdu عَقْل ('aql)
    Urdu مَنْد (mand)
    Urdu عَقْلْمَنْد ('aqlmand)

    From عَقْل ('aql, “intelligence”) +‎ مَنْد (mand). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi عقلمند ('qlmnd).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /(ʔ)əql.mənd̪/
    • Rhymes: -ənd̪
    • Hyphenation: عَقْلْ‧مَنْد

    Adjective

    عَقْلْمَنْد • ('aqlmand) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling अक़्लमंद)

    1. intelligent, smart
      Synonyms: سَمَجْھدَار (samajhdār), ہوشِیار (hośiyār)
    2. cunning

    References

    1. ^ “عقلمند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

    Further reading

    More information
    • “عقلمند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عقل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437
    • Platts, John T. (1884) “عقلمند”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “عقل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
    • John Shakespear (1834) “عقلمند”, 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
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