مشاہدہ
Urdu
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Arabic شَاهَدَ (šāhada)
Urdu مُشَاہِدَہ (muśāhida)
Borrowed from Classical Persian مُشَاهِدَه (mušāhida), borrowed from Arabic مُشَاهَدَة (mušāhada), from شَاهَدَ (šāhada).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mʊ.ʃɑː.ɦɪ.d̪ɑ(ː)/, /mʊ.ʃɑː.ɦə.d̪ɑ(ː)/
- Syllabification: مُ‧شَا‧ہِ‧دَہ
Noun
مُشَاہِدَہ or مُشَاہَدَہ • (muśāhida or muśāhada) m (formal plural مُشَاہِدَات (muśāhidāt), Hindi spelling मुशाहिदा or मुशाहदा)
- observation
- Synonym: مُعَائِنَہ (mu'āina)
- witnessing; beholding
- contemplation
- (obsolete) sight; vision
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | مُشَاہِدَہ (muśāhidah) | مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide) |
| oblique | مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide) | مُشَاہِدوں (muśāhidõ) |
| vocative | مُشَاہِدے (muśāhide) | مُشَاہِدو (muśāhido) |
Derived terms
See also
Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ش ه د (0 c, 5 e)
Further reading
- “مشاہدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “مشاہدہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مشاہده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 589
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مشاهده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1037
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “مشاﮩده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1098
- John Shakespear (1834) “مشاهده”, 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