وشواس

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विश्वास (viśvāsá). First attested as Old Hindi विश्वास (viśvāsa). Doublet of بِسْواس (bisvās).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋɪʃ.ʋɑːs/
• Rhymes: -ɑːs
• Hyphenation: وِشْ‧واس

وِشْواس • (viśvās) m (Hindi spelling विश्वास)

1. belief, faith
2. trust
3. confidence

• (belief, trust): آسْتھا (āsthā), اِیمان (īmān), بھَروسَہ (bharosa)
• (confidence): یَقِین (yaqīn)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “وشواس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1194
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “وشواش”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 663
• “وشواس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• “وشواس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.