واسطہ

See also: واسطة‎ and واسطه‎

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة‎ (wāsiṭa).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/

(Deccani) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/

Noun

واسِطَہ • (vāsit̤ah) m (Hindi spelling वासिता)

anything intermediate
a medium; an instrument
a mediator; middle-man; agent; broker
means; motive, cause, reason, occasion
account, sake
relationship, connexion
business, concern

Declension

Declension of واسطہ
	singular	plural
direct	واسطہ‎ (vāsitah)	واسطے‎ (vāsite)
oblique	واسطے‎ (vāsite)	واسطوں‎ (vāsitõ)
vocative	واسطے‎ (vāsite)	واسطو‎ (vāsito)

Derived terms

بواسطہ‎
واسطہ رکھنا‎
واسطے‎

Related terms

واسطہ دار‎

Further reading

“واسطہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Platts, John T. (1884), “واسطہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
“واسطہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

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