میخانہ
Urdu
Etymology
First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi میخانہ (myxanh),[1] borrowed from Classical Persian میخانه (mayxāna).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɛː.xɑːn.ɑ(ː)/
Noun
مَیخَانہ • (maixāna) m (Hindi spelling मैख़ाना)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | میخانَہ (maixānah) | میخانے (maixāne) |
| oblique | میخانے (maixāne) | میخانوں (maixānõ) |
| vocative | میخانے (maixāne) | میخانو (maixāno) |
References
Further reading
- “میخانہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “میخانہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مے”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1103