مثلا
See also: مثلاً
Arabic
Etymology
Adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, “example”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.θa.lan/
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: məsələn
- → Bashkir: мәҫәлән (məśələn)
- → Chagatai: مثلا
- → Crimean Tatar: meselâ
- → Kazakh: мәселен (mäselen)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مثلا
- Turkish: mesela
- → Punjabi:
- → Pashto: مثلا (masalan)
- → Persian: مَثَلاً (masalan)
- → Swahili: mathalani
- → Tatar: мәсәлән (mäsälän)
- → Turkmen: meselem
- → Urdu: مَثَلاً (masalan)
Ottoman Turkish
Adverb
مثلا • (mesela)
- as an example, for instance
Descendants
- Turkish: mesela
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مثلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1742
Pashto
Further reading
Persian
Alternative forms
- مثلن (masalan) (nonstandard)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل (masal) + ـاً (-an).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ma.sa.lan]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæ.sæ.læn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mä.sä.län]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | masalan |
Dari reading? | masalan |
Iranian reading? | masalan |
Tajik reading? | masalan |
Punjabi
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مثلاً”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan) via Classical Persian مَثَلاً (masalan).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mə.sə.lən/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /məs.lən/
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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