برطانیہ

From Classical Persian برطانیه‎ (biritâniya), from Arabic بِرِطَانِيَة‎ (biriṭāniya) or بَرْطَانِيَة‎ (barṭāniya), ultimately from Latin Britannia. Compare Pashto برطانيه‎ (bartānya). By surface analysis, برطان‎ (bart̤ān, “Britain; Brittany”) +‎ یہ‎ (iya).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɾ.t̪ɑː.nɪ.jɑ(ː)/

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• Hyphenation: بَر‧طا‧نِ‧یَہ

بَرْطانِیَہ or بَرْطانْیَہ • (bart̤āniya or bart̤ānya) m (Hindi spelling बर्तानिया or बर्तान्या)

1. Britain; Great Britain

   Synonym: برطان‎ (bart̤ān)

• برطانوی‎ (bart̤ānvī, “British”)

• “برطانیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “برطانيہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “برطانیہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.