قباحت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَبَاحَة (qabāḥa).

Noun

قباحت • (kabahat)

  1. fault, offense; sin
  2. (law) misdemeanor
    قباحت آتمق ― kabahat atmak ― to accuse

Derived terms

  • قباحتسز (kabahatsız)
  • قباحتلی (kabahatlı)
  • قباحتلق (kabahatlık)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kabahat

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kabahat”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قباحت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 942
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kabahat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباحت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1430

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَبَاحَت (qabāhat), from Arabic قَبَاحَة (qabāḥa). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi قباحت (qbaḥt /⁠qabāhat⁠/).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qə.bɑː.ɦət̪/
  • Rhymes: -ət̪
  • Hyphenation: قَ‧بَا‧حَت

Noun

قَبَاحَت • (qabāhat) f (Hindi spelling क़बाहत)

  1. harm; wrong
  2. defect
  3. hindrance; inconvenience
  4. baseness; villainy

Declension

Declension of قباحت
singular plural
direct قَبَاحَت (qabāhat) قَبَاحَتیں (qabāhatẽ)
oblique قَبَاحَت (qabāhat) قَبَاحَتوں (qabāhatõ)
vocative قَبَاحَت (qabāhat) قَبَاحَتو (qabāhato)

References

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

Further reading

  • “قباحت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “قباحت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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