ماہ

ماہ • (máh)

1. moon
2. month

From Classical Persian ماه‎ (māh, “moon”).

Cognate with Baluchi ماہ‎ (máh), Pashto مياشت‎ (myāšt) and Punjabi ماہ‎ (māh).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɑːɦ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /mɑːɦ/

ماہ • (māh) m (Hindi spelling माह)

1. moon
2. (figuratively) beloved

• ماہ رُو‎ (māh-rū, “beautiful face”, literally “[having] a face like the moon”)
• ماہ رُخ‎ (māh-rux, “beautiful”)
• ماہ وَش‎ (māh-vaś, “beautiful; beloved”, literally “moon-like”)
• ماہ نامَہ‎ (māh-nāma, “monthly magazine”)
• ماہ بَہ ماہ‎ (māh-ba-māh, “monthly”)
• ماہ پَیکَر‎ (māh-paikar, “moon-shaped”)
• ماہِ نَو‎ (māh-e-nau, “new moon”)
• مہر و ماہ‎ (mehr-o-māh, “sun and moon”)

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