واسطہ
See also: واسطة and واسطه
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋɑː.sɪ.t̪ɑː/
Noun
واسِطَہ • (vāsitā) m (Hindi spelling वासिता)
- anything intermediate
- a medium; an instrument
- a mediator; middle-man; agent; broker
- means; motive, cause, reason, occasion
- account, sake
- relationship, connexion
- business, concern
Declension
| Declension of واسطہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | واسطہ (vāsitah) | واسطے (vāsite) |
| oblique | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطوں (vāsitõ) |
| vocative | واسطے (vāsite) | واسطو (vāsito) |
Derived terms
- بواسطہ
- واسطہ رکھنا
- واسطے
Related terms
- واسطہ دار
Further reading
- “واسطہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “واسطہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “واسطہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.