قلعہ

See also: قلعه and قلعة

Shina

Etymology

From Urdu قلعہ (qilah).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qílla/

Noun

قلعہ (qilla)

  1. fort

Urdu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa)bor.
    Classical Persian قَلْعَه / قِلْعَه (qal'a)bor.
    Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه / قِلْعَه (qal'a), borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qɪl.ʔɑ(ː)/, [qɪ.lɑː]
      • (archaic) IPA(key): /qəl.ʔɑ(ː)/
    • (colloquial) IPA(key): [kɪ.lɑː]
    • Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ

    Noun

    قِلْعَہ • (qil'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)

    1. fort, fortress, castle
      Synonyms: کوٹ (koṭ), کوٹْلَہ (koṭla), حِصار (hisār), قَصْر (qasr)
    2. (chess) castle (rook)
    3. a type of firework which has firecrackers

    Declension

    Declension of قلعہ
    singular plural
    direct قِلْعَہ (qil'ah) قِلْعے (qil'e)
    oblique قِلْعے (qil'e) قِلْعوں (qil'õ)
    vocative قِلْعے (qil'e) قِلْعو (qil'o)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → English: qila
    • → Shina: قلعہ (qilla)

    References

    1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “قلعه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

    Further reading

    • “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    • “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
    • John Shakespear (1834) “قلعه”, 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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