ہندسہ

See also: هندسه and هندسة

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هَنْدَسَه (handasa), from Arabic هَنْدَسَة (handasa), itself a Middle Persian borrowing. Doublet of اَنْدَازَہ (andāza).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɪn.d̪ɪ.sɑ(ː)/
  • (archaic) IPA^(key): /ɦən.d̪ə.sɑ(ː)/
• (common) IPA^(key): [ɦɪ̃nd̪.sɑː]
  • (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [ɦɪ̃nᵈ.sɑː]
• Hyphenation: ہِن‧دِ‧سَہ

Noun

ہِنْدِسَہ or ہِنْدْسَہ • (hindisa or hindsa) m (Hindi spelling हिंदसा)

1. (arithmetic) a digit (ie. a number; numeral)
2. (literally) geometry
3. engineering

Declension

Declension of ہندسہ
	singular	plural
direct	ہِنْدِسَہ (hindisah)	ہِنْدِسے (hindise)
oblique	ہِنْدِسے (hindise)	ہِنْدِسوں (hindisõ)
vocative	ہِنْدِسے (hindise)	ہِنْدِسو (hindiso)

Related terms

• مُہَنْدِس (muhandis)
• مُہَنْدِسی (muhandisī)

Further reading

More information

• “ہندسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ہندسہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہندسہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “هندسه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1236
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ﮩندسه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1206
• John Shakespear (1834) “هندسه”, 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