प्रेम

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रेमन् (preman). First attested as Old Hindi प्रेम (prema).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɾeːm/, [pɾẽːm]

प्रेम • (prem) m (Urdu spelling پَریم)

1. love

   Synonyms: प्यार (pyār), इश्क़ (iśq), आशिक़ी (āśiqī), मुहब्बत (muhabbat), प्रीति (prīti)

   उनके प्रेम की चर्चा घर-घर में हो रही है।

   unke prem kī carcā ghar-ghar mẽ ho rahī hai.

   Their love is being talked about in every house.

2. affection, care

प्रेम • (prem) m (Urdu spelling پَریم)

1. a male given name, Prem, from Sanskrit

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “प्रेम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “प्रेम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

प्रेम • (prem) (Latin script prem, Kannada script ಪ್ರೇಮ)

1. love, passion
2. affection
3. attachment, fondness
4. inclination

Inherited from Old Marathi 𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘹𑘦 (prema, “love”), from Sanskrit प्रेमन् (preman, “love, affection”).

• IPA^(key): /pɾem/

प्रेम • (prem) n

1. love

   Synonyms: प्रीति (prīti), प्रीत (prīt), प्यार (pyār), इश्क (iśka)

   प्रेम आंधळं असतं! ― prem āndhḷa astam! ― Love is blind!

2. affection

   Synonyms: स्नेह (sneh), जिव्हाळा (jivhāḷā), माया (māyā)

प्रेम • (prem) m

1. a male given name, Prem, from Sanskrit

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “प्रेम”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “प्रेम”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “प्रेम”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• Shankar Gopal Tulpule, Anne Feldhaus (1999) “प्रेम”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan

• IPA^(key): [prem]
• Phonetic Devanagari: प्रेम्

प्रेम • (prem)

1. love, affection

   Synonym: माया (māyā)

• “प्रेम”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎^[1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “प्रेम”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रेमन् (preman). Compare Old Punjabi ਪ੍ਰੇਮੁ (premu), Old Marathi 𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘹𑘦 (prema).

प्रेम (prema)

1. love, devotion

• Hindustani: prem

  Hindi: प्रेम

  Urdu: پَریم (parem)

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 548