شعلہ

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Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian شعله (šu'la), itself from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

شُعْلَہ (śu'lam (Hindi spelling शोला)

  1. a flame; blaze (of fire)
    Synonyms: آنچ (āṉc), لَو (lau)
    • c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea]‎[1] (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:
      یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں
      yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ
      It is true that to [try and] save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task
  2. (figuratively) fury

Declension[edit]

Declension of شعلہ
singular plural
direct شُعْلہ (śuʻlah) شُعْلے (śuʻle)
oblique شُعْلے (śuʻle) شُعْلوں (śuʻlõ)
vocative شُعْلے (śuʻle) شُعْلو (śuʻlo)

Further reading[edit]

  • شعلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.