شعلہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شعله (šu'la), itself from Arabic شُعْلَة (šuʕla).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃʊʕ.lɑ(ː)/, [ʃoː.lɑ(ː)]
  • Hyphenation: شُعْ‧لَہ
  • Homophones: شولہ (śola), شولا (śolā)

Noun

شُعْلَہ • (śu'la) m (Hindi spelling शोला)

  1. a flame; blaze (of fire)
    Synonyms: آنچ (āṉc), لَو (lau)
    • c. 1950, عامر عثمانی [Amir Usmani], التجا [Plea]‎ (poetry), quoted in یہ قدم قدم بلائیں, page 117:
      یہ سچ کہ بھڑکتے شعلوں سے دامن کو بچانا کھیل نہیں
      yih sac kih bhaṛakte śuʻloṉ se dāman ko bacānā khel nahīṉ
      It is true that to [try and] save a soul from a blazing fire is no easy task
  2. (figuratively) fury

Declension
Declension of شعلہ
singular plural
direct شُعْلہ (śuʻlah) شُعْلے (śuʻle)
oblique شُعْلے (śuʻle) شُعْلوں (śuʻlõ)
vocative شُعْلے (śuʻle) شُعْلو (śuʻlo)

Further reading
  • “شعلہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “شعلہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شعلہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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