اداس

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa). First attested as Old Hindi उदास (udāsa).

Pronunciation

Adjective

اُدَاس • (udās) (Hindi spelling उदास)

  1. sad, gloomy
  2. apathetic
  3. unhappy

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “اداس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “اداس”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “اداس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “اداس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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