تخمہ

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian تخمه‎ (tuxma, “descent; extraction, stock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

تخمہ • (tuxma) m (Hindi spelling तुख़्मा)

  1. offspring, descent
  2. stock, extraction
  3. (figurative) root, origin
  4. (figurative) principle

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