ہاتھ

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi ہاتھ (hath) c. 1503 / ہات (hāt) c. 1503 / ہَتھ (hath) / ہَت (hat),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀢𑁆𑀣 (hattha), from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta),[2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰés-to- (“hand”), from *ǵʰes-. Doublet of دَسْت (dast). Cognate with Punjabi ہَتھّ / ਹੱਥ (hattha). Wider cognates include Pashto لاس (lâs), Persian دست (dast).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦɑːt̪ʰ/
  • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːt̪ʰ

Noun

ہَاتھ • (hāth) m (Hindi spelling हाथ)

  1. (anatomy) hand
  2. claw (of an animal)
  3. (figuratively) source of help
  4. (figuratively) help; access
  5. (figuratively) force (power; strength, of a nation for instance)
  6. (figuratively) intervention
  7. (figuratively) contribution

Declension

Declension of ہاتھ
singular plural
direct ہاتھ (hāth) ہاتھ (hāth)
oblique ہاتھ (hāth) ہاتھوں (hāthõ)
vocative ہاتھ (hāth) ہاتھو (hātho)

References

  1. ^ “ہاتھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hasta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811

Further reading

More information
  • “ہاتھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہاتهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “هاتهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1845
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ﮩـاتهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1193
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