کشف

Borrowed from Arabic كَشْف (kašf).

کشف • (kašf)

1. discovery
2. disclosure, revelation, revealing
3. unveiling; removal of a veil

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kšwk' /⁠kašawag⁠/, “tortoise”), from Proto-Iranian *kacyápah. Cognate with Sanskrit कच्छप (kacchapa).

کشف • (kašaf)

1. (archaic) tortoise, turtle

   Synonym: لاک‌پشت (lâk-pošt)

2. (astrology, obsolete) Cancer

• → Gujarati: કશફ (kaśaph)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “کشف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَشْف (kašf), borrowed from Arabic كَشْف (kašf). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi کشف (kśf /⁠kaśf⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kəʃf/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [kə.ʃəf]
• Rhymes: -əʃf

کَشْف • (kaśf) m (Hindi spelling कश्फ़)

1. divine inspiration
2. revelation, manifestation
3. (dated) discovery
4. (rare) unveil, unveiling

کَشَف • (kaśaf) f (Hindi spelling कशफ़)

1. a female given name, Kashaf, from Arabic

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَشَف (kašaf). Doublet of کَچْھوَا (kachvā)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.ʃəf/
• Rhymes: -əf
• Hyphenation: کَ‧شَف

کَشَف • (kaśaf) m (Hindi spelling कशफ़)

1. tortoise, turtle

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