ہم زلف
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Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian هَم زُلْف (ham zulf). By surface analysis, ہَم (ham) + زُلْف (zulf).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦəm zʊlf/
- Rhymes: -ʊlf
Noun
ہَم زُلْف • (ham zulf) m (Hindi spelling हम-ज़ुल्फ़)
- brother-in-law – sister-in-law's husband (husband of wife's sister)
- Synonym: ساڑُھو (sāṛhū)
Declension
| 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