مثلا

Adverbial accusative of مَثَل‎ (maṯal, “example”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.θa.lan/

مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)

1. for example

• → Azerbaijani: məsələn
• → Bashkir: мәҫәлән (mäθälän)
• → Chagatai: مثلا‎
  • Uyghur: مەسەلەن‎ (meselen)
  • Uzbek: masalan
• → Kazakh: мәселен (mäselen)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مثلا‎
  • Turkish: mesela
• → Punjabi: مَثَلاً‎ (mas̱alan)
• → Pashto: مثلا‎ (masalan)
• → Persian: مَثَلاً‎ (masalan)
• → Tatar: мәсәлән (mäsälän)
• → Turkmen: meselem
• → Urdu: مَثَلاً‎ (masalan)

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

مثلا • (mesela)

1. as an example, for instance

• Turkish: mesela

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مثلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1742

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً‎ (maṯalan).

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

1. for example

• "مثلاً", Qamosona.com

• مثلن‎ (masalan) (nonstandard)

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل‎ (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل‎ (masal) +‎ ـاً‎ (-an).

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

1. for example

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً‎ (maṯalan).

مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan)

1. for example

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “مثلاً‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

مثلا • (masalan)

1. Alternative form of متلا‎ (matalan, “for example”)

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا‎ (maṯalan).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.sə.lən/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /mə.sə.lən/

مَثَلاً • (masalan, vulg. maslan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)

1. for example, for instance, e.g.; namely

• “مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.