ریشہ

Urdu

Etymology
PIE word
*wréh₂ds

Borrowed from Classical Persian ریشه (rēša, “root; stump”). Compare Baluchi ریشگ (rīšag, “root”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ریشہ • (reśa or rīśa) ?

  1. fiber, filament
  2. vein; tissue; nerve
  3. (archaic) root of a plant

Derived terms
  • ریشَہ دار (reśa-dār, “fibrous”)
  • بے ریشَہ (be-reśa, “fibreless”)
  • ریشَہ خَطْمی (reśa-xatmī, “Althaea officinalis”)
  • رَگ و ریشَہ (rag-o-reśa, “nature; constitution”, literally “vein and tissue”)

References
  • “ریشہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ریشہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “ریشہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “ریشہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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