لہو

Inherited from Old Hindi لوہو‎ (lohū) / لُہُو‎ (luhū), from Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (lōhia), ultimately from Sanskrit लोहित (lṓhita), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwdʰitas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lə.ɦuː/

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• Hyphenation: لَ‧ہُو
• Rhymes: -uː

لَہُو • (lahū) m (Hindi spelling लहू)

1. blood

   Synonyms: خُون‎ (xūn), رَکْت‎ (rakt), دم‎ (dam)

2. (figuratively) blood, nature (characteristic or personality etc.)

   Synonyms: فِطْرَت‎ (fiṭrat), سَرِشْت‎ (sariśt), خَمِیر‎ (xamīr)

3. (figuratively) blood, family relationship

• “لہو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “لہو”, 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), “لہو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “لہو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “لہو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “لـﮩو”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650