بہشت

See also: بهشت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بِهِشْت (bihišt), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭩 (wahišt). First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi بِہِشْت (bihiśt). Compare Bengali বেহেশ্ত (beheśto). Doublet of بَسِیٹھ (basīṭh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.ɦɪʃt̪/, /bɪ.ɦɪšt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃt̪
• Hyphenation: بِ‧ہِشْت

Noun

بَہِشْت or بِہِشْت • (bahiśt or bihiśt) f (Hindi spelling बहिश्त) (literary)

1. paradise, heaven – Synonym of جَنَّت (jannat)

   Synonyms: فِرْدَوس (firdaus), جَنَّت (jannat)

   • مرزا غالب (Mirzā Ghālib) :

     سنتے ہیں جو بہشت کی تعریف سب درست
     لیکن خدا کرے، وہ ترا جلوہ گاہ ہو

     sunte ha͠i jo bahiśt kī tārīf sab durust
     lekin xudā kare voh tirā jalvā gāh ho

Declension

Declension of بہشت
	singular	plural
direct	بِہِشْت (bihiśt)	بِہِشْتیں (bihiśtẽ)
oblique	بِہِشْت (bihiśt)	بِہِشْتوں (bihiśtõ)
vocative	بِہِشْت (bihiśt)	بِہِشْتو (bihiśto)

Further reading

• “بہشت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بہشت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بہشت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بہثت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بـﮩشت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “بـﮩشت”, 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