فقرہ
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian فِقْرَه (fiqra), from Arabic فِقْرَة (fiqra).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fɪq.ɾɑ(ː)/
- (Punjabic Urdu, Delhi Urdu) IPA(key): [fɪk.ɾɑː]
- Hyphenation: فِق‧رَہ
Noun
فِقْرَہ • (fiqra) m (formal plural فِقْرَات (fiqrāt), Hindi spelling फ़िक़रा)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | فِقْرَہ (fiqrah) | فِقْرے (fiqre) |
| oblique | فِقْرے (fiqre) | فِقْروں (fiqrõ) |
| vocative | فِقْرے (fiqre) | فِقْرو (fiqro) |
Derived terms
- فِقْرَہ بَنْدی (fiqra bandī, “arrangement; eloquence; construction of a sentence”)
- فِقْرہ باز (fiqrebāz, “a cheat”)
- فِقْرہ بازی (fiqrebāzī, “deception”)
See also
Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ف ق ر (0 c, 2 e)
Further reading
- “فقرہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “فقرہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فقرہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “فقره”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 456
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “فقره”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 873
- John Shakespear (1834) “فقره”, 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