مثلا

See also: مثلاً‎

Arabic

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of مَثَل‎ (maṯal, “example”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.θa.lan/

Adverb

مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)

  1. for example

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (mesela)

  1. as an example, for instance

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً‎ (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل‎ (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل‎ (masal) +‎ ـاً‎ (-an).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /masalan/

Adverb

Dari مثلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik масалан (masalan)

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً‎ (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan)

  1. for example

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “مثلاً‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م ث ل‎

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (masalan)

  1. Alternative form of متلا‎ (matalan, “for example”)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

Pronunciation

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan, vulg. maslan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)

  1. for example, for instance, e.g.; namely

Further reading

  • “مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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