اداس

Old Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa). Compare Old Punjabi ਉਦਾਸੁ (udāsu), Old Marathi 𑘄𑘟𑘰𑘭 (udāsa).

Adjective

اُداس (udāsa) (Devanagari उदास)

1. weary, worn out
2. different; free

Descendants

• Hindustani: udās

  Hindi: उदास

  Urdu: اُدَاس (udās)

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi اداس / उदास (udāsa, “indifferent”) (c. 1503), a learned borrowing from Sanskrit उदास (udāsa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊ.d̪ɑːs/
• Rhymes: -ɑːs
• Hyphenation: اُ‧داس

Adjective

اُدَاس • (udās) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling उदास)

1. sad, unhappy

   Antonym: خوش (xoś)

2. (by extension) apathetic, unconcerned
3. (by extension) lackadaisical, fatigued (of toil, labour etc.)
4. grey, dull (ie. gloomy)
5. (figuratively) empty, desolate, deserted

   Synonyms: سُونا (sūnā), وِیران (vīrān), اُجاڑ (ujāṛ)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• اُدَاسِی (udāsī, “sadness”)

Further reading

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