बुलंद

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بُلَنْد (buland).[1] First attested in c. 1503[2] as Middle Hindi بلند (blnd). Doublet of बृहत् (bŕhat).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /bʊ.lənd̪/, [bʊ.lɐ̃n̪d̪]
  • Hyphenation: बु‧लंद
  • Rhymes: -ənd̪

Adjective

बुलंद • (buland) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling بُلَنْد)[3][4]

  1. high, lofty
    Synonym: ऊँचा (ū̃cā)
  2. loud

Derived terms

References

More information
  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “buland”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 140.
  2. ^ “بلند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  3. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बुलंद”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 742
  4. ^ “बलंद”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
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