بادشاہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه (bâdšâh), from Arabic بَادْشَاه (bādšāh), from Persian پادشاه (pâdešâh). Compare Maithili बादसाह (bādᵊsāh) / 𑒥𑒰𑒠𑒮𑒰𑒯 (bādasāha), Punjabi ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹ (bādśāh) / بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Sindhi بادشاهُ / बादशाहु, Gujarati બાદશાહ (bādśāh), Marathi बादशहा (bādaśhā), Bengali বাদশাহ (badośah), Telugu పాదుషా (pāduṣā).

Pronunciation

Noun

بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh) m (Hindi spelling बादशाह)

  1. king
    Synonyms: شاہ (śāh), راجا (rājā)
  2. monarch
  3. Badshah, Padishah
  4. (chess, card games) king

Declension

Declension of بادشاہ
singular plural
direct بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh) بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh)
oblique بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh) بَادْشَاہوں (bādśāhō̃)
vocative بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh) بَادْشَاہو (bādśāhō)

Derived terms

Further reading

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