قرضہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرضه (qarza). By surface analysis, قرض (qarẓ, “loan”) +‎ ہ (ah).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qəɾ.zɑ(ː)/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Hyphenation: قَرْ‧ضَہ

Noun

قَرْضَہ • (qarẓa) m (Hindi spelling क़र्ज़ा)

  1. debt (loan)
    Synonyms: قَرْض (qarz), اُدھار (udhār)

Declension

Declension of قرضہ
singular plural
direct قرضَہ (qarẓah) قرضے (qarẓe)
oblique قرضے (qarẓe) قرضوں (qarẓõ)
vocative قرضے (qarẓe) قرضو (qarẓo)

Further reading

  • “قرضہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “قرضہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قرض”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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