بادشاہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه‎ (bādšāh), from Arabic بَادْشَاه‎ (bādšāh), from Classical Persian پادشاه‎ (pādišāh). 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 (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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