مثلا

See also: مثلاً

Arabic

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, example).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.θa.lan/

Adverb

مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)

  1. for example

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (mesela)

  1. as an example, for instance

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل (masal) + ـاً (-an).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]

Readings
Classical reading? masalan
Dari reading? masalan
Iranian reading? masalan
Tajik reading? masalan

Adverb

Dari مثلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik масалан

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

  1. for example

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan) (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸਲਨ)

  1. for example

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مثلاً”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م ث ل
3 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (masalan)

  1. Alternative form of متلا (matalan, for example)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan) via Classical Persian مَثَلاً (masalan).

Pronunciation

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)

  1. for example, for instance, e.g.; namely

Further reading

  • مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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