اداس

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa). First attested as Old Hindi उदास (udāsa).

Pronunciation

Adjective

اُدَاس (udās) (Hindi spelling उदास)

  1. sad, gloomy
  2. apathetic
  3. unhappy

Derived terms

Further reading

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