ہم زلف

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هَم زُلْف (ham zulf). By surface analysis, ہَم (ham) +‎ زُلْف (zulf).

Pronunciation

Noun

ہَم زُلْف • (ham zulfm (Hindi spelling हम-ज़ुल्फ़)

  1. brother-in-lawsister-in-law's husband (husband of wife's sister)
    Synonym: ساڑُھو (sāṛhū)

Declension

Declension of ہم زلف
singular plural
direct ہَم زُلْف (ham zulf) ہَم زُلْف (ham zulf)
oblique ہَم زُلْف (ham zulf) ہَم زُلْفوں (ham zulfõ)
vocative ہَم زُلْف (ham zulf) ہَم زُلْفو (ham zulfo)

Further reading

  • ہم زلف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ham-zulf”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 677
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “هم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1234
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ﮩم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1206
  • John Shakespear (1834) “هم”, 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 1872