پرتھوی

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पृथ्वी (pṛthvī).

Noun

پِرْتِھْوی or پْرِتْھْوی • (pirthivī or prithvīf (Hindi spelling पृथ्वी) (rare)

  1. Earth (the third planet from our Sun)
    • 1921?, سِیتا رام (sītā rām) 7:[1]
      جو چار کونے ہَیں پِرْتِھْوی کے رَہیں گے قائِم اُنْہیں کے دَم سے ہَوا ہَے اَب تَک نَہ کوئِی ہوگا جَہاں میں جَیسے یہ بِیر ہوںْگے
      jo cār kone ha͠i pirthivī ke rahẽ ge qāim unhẽ ke dam se havā hai ab tak na koī hogā jahā̃ mẽ jaise ye bīr hõge
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. ground

Synonyms

Proper noun

پِرْتِھْوی or پْرِتْھْوی • (pirthivī or prithvīf (Hindi spelling पृथ्वी)

  1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) Prithvi, Mother Earth

References

  1. ^ پرتھوی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • پرتھوی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
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    S. W. Fallon (1879) “پرتھوی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 349
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پرتهوي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 243
  • John Shakespear (1834) “پرتھوی”, 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, page 393