قلعہ

See also: قلعه‎ and قلعة‎

Shina

Etymology

From Urdu قلعہ‎ (qilah).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qílla/

Noun

قلعہ (qilla)

  1. fort

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه‎ (qal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʕa).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qɪl.ʕɑ(ː)/, [qɪ.lɑ(ː)]
    • (archaic) IPA(key): /qəl.ʕɑ(ː)/
  • Hyphenation: قِلْ‧عَہ

Noun

قِلْعَہ or قَلْعَہ • (qil'a or qal'a) m (Hindi spelling क़िला)

  1. fort, fortress, castle
    Synonyms: کوٹ‎ (koṭ), کوٹْلَہ‎ (koṭla), حِصار‎ (hisār), قَصْر‎ (qasr)
  2. (chess) castling
  3. a type of firework which has firecrackers

Declension
Declension of قلعہ‎
singular plural
direct قِلْعہ‎ (qil'ah) قِلْعے‎ (qil'e)
oblique قِلْعے‎ (qil'e) قِلْعوں‎ (qil'õ)
vocative قِلْعے‎ (qil'e) قِلْعو‎ (qil'o)

Descendants
  • → English: qila
  • → Shina: قلعہ‎ (qilla)

Further reading
  • “قلعہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “قلعہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قلعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “قلعه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879), “قلعه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 889
  • John Shakespear (1834), “قلعه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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