پچھم

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi پچھم (pchm /⁠paccham⁠/) (c. 1736),[1], a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit पश्चिम (paścima).[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

پَچَّھم • (paccham) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling पच्छम)

  1. west; Western
    Synonyms: مَغْرِب (maġrib), مَغْرِبی (maġribī)

Noun

پَچَّھم • (paccham) m (Hindi spelling पच्छम)

  1. the west
    Synonym: مَغْرِب (maġrib)
  2. the West; a Western country
    Synonym: مَغْرِب (maġrib)

Declension

Declension of پچھم
singular plural
direct پَچَّھم (paccham) پَچَّھم (paccham)
oblique پَچَّھم (paccham) پَچَّھموں (pacchamõ)
vocative پَچَّھم (paccham) پَچَّھمو (pacchamo)

See also

compass points (2):  [edit]

اُتَّر (uttar)
پَچَّھم (paccham) پُورَب (pūrab)
دَکَّھن (dakkhan)

References

  1. ^ “پچھم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “paścimā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

  • “پچھم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “پچھم”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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