بھاپ

Urdu

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀧𑁆𑀨 (bappha), from Sanskrit वाष्प (vāṣpa, “tear”).^[1] First attested in c. 1419 as Middle Hindi بھاپھہ (bhaphh /⁠bhāph⁠/) and later as بھاپ (bhap /⁠bhāp⁠/).^[2]

بَھاپ • (bhāp) m (Hindi spelling भाप)

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bāṣpá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 521
^ “بھاپ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

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