بادشاہ

بادشاہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه‎ (bâdšâh), from Arabic بَادْشَاه‎ (bādšāh), from Persian پادشاه‎ (pâdešâh). Compare Maithili बादसाह (bādᵊsāh) / 𑒥𑒰𑒠𑒮𑒰𑒯 (bādasāha), Punjabi ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹ (bādśāh) / بادْشاہ‎ (bādśāh), Sindhi بادشاهُ‎ / बादशाहु, Gujarati બાદશાહ (bādśāh), Marathi बादशहा (bādaśhā), Bengali বাদশাহ (badôśahô), Telugu పాదుషా (pāduṣā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪.ʃɑːɦ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɦ

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

• بَادْشَاہِی‎ (bādśāhī)
• بَادْشَاہَت‎ (bādśāhat)

Further reading

• “بادشاہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.