لحظہ
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian لَحْظَه (lahza), borrowed from Arabic لَحْظَة (laḥẓa).[1] First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi لحظہ (lḥz̤h).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ləɦ.zɑ(ː)/, [lɛɦ.zɑː]
- Syllabification: لَح‧ظَہ
Noun
لَحْظَہ • (lahza) m (Hindi spelling लहज़ा)
- moment, instant
- Synonyms: پَل (pal), لَمْحَہ (lamha)
- c. 1900, علامہ اقبال [Allama Iqbal], مردِ مسلمان[1]:
- ہر لحظہ ہے مومن کی نئی شان، نئی آن
- har laḥz̤a hai momin kī nay'ī śān, nay'ī ān
- Every moment is a glory, a splendour for a believer
- a look; glance[1][3]
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | لَحْظَہ (lahzah) | لَحْظے (lahze) |
| oblique | لَحْظے (lahze) | لَحْظوں (lahzõ) |
| vocative | لَحْظے (lahze) | لَحْظو (lahzo) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Platts, John T. (1884) “لحظه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 954
- ^ “لحظہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ John Shakespear (1834) “لحظه”, 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
Further reading
- “لحظہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لحظہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “لحظه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1042