بوسہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بوسه‎ (bōsa, “kiss”).

Pronunciation

Noun

بوسہ • (bosa) ?

  1. kiss
    ‏میری محبوب مجھے بوسہ دو‎
    merī muhabūb, mujhe bosa do
    my lover, kiss me
    ‏آپ کی بوسہ پری کے لمس کی طرح ہے‎
    āp kī bosa parī ke lamas kī tarah he
    your kiss is like a touch from a fairy

Derived terms

  • بوسَہ زَن‎ (bosa-zan, “kisser”)
  • بُوْسَہ زَنِی‎ (bosa-zanī, “kissing”)
  • بوسَہ گاہ‎ (bosa-gāh, “kissing-place”)
  • بوسَہ بازی‎ (bosa-bāzī, “kissing”, literally “kiss-game”)
  • بوس و کَنار‎ (bosa-o-kanār, “kissing and fondling; making love”)

References

  • “بوسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بوسہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “بوسہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “بوسہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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