تودہ

From Classical Persian توده‎ (tōda, “heap, pile; mass”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪oː.d̪ᵊ/, /t̪uː.d̪ᵊ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /t̪oː.d̪ᵊ/, /t̪uː.d̪ᵊ/

تُودہ or تودہ • (tūda or toda) m (Hindi spelling तोदा or तूदा)

1. mound, heap, pile; stack

   ‏ہم تودہ پر چڑھ گئے‎

   ham tūda par caṛh ga'e

   we climbed up the mound

2. boundary, limit

   ‏یہ ہمارے گاؤں کا ٹوڈا ہے‎

   ye hamare ga'õ kā tūda he

   this is the boundary of our village

3. crowd, mob, gathering

   ‏تودہ گلیوں میں جمع ہو گیا‎

   tūda galīyõ mẽ jama' ho gyā

   a crowd has gathered in the streets

4. an earthen mound used to fire ranged weapons behind

   ‏ساتھی تودہ پر تفنگ چاؤ‎

   sāthī, tūda par tufang cala'o!

   comrade, fire the gun from the mound!

• تودَۂِ خاک‎ (tōda-e-xāk, “heap of earth; corpse”)
• تُودَہ بَندی‎ (tōda-bandī)
• خاک تُودَہ‎ (xāk-tōda, “heap of earth”)

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