ماہ

ماہ • (máh)

1. moon
2. month

• مَان٘ہہ (māṉh) (Pakistan)

Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (māha), from Sanskrit माघ (māghá). Doublet of ماگھ (māgh).

• (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: mā́ IPA^(key): /mäː˦/
• Rhymes: -äː˦

مَاہ • (māh) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਾਹ) (Standard Punjabi)

1. moon
2. a month; period of thirty days
3. (figuratively, poetic) beloved (ie. lover)
4. Alternative form of ماگھ (māgh, “the month of Magh”)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “ماہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ماہ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “māghá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574

Borrowed from Classical Persian ماه (māh, “moon”).

Compare Baluchi ماہ (máh), Pashto مياشت (myāšt) and Punjabi ماہ (māh).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɑːɦ/

ماہ • (māh) m (Hindi spelling माह)

1. moon
2. (figuratively) beloved

• ماہ رُو (māh-rū, “beautiful face”, literally “[having] a face like the moon”)
• ماہ رُخ (māh-rux, “beautiful”)
• ماہ وَش (māh-vaś, “beautiful; beloved”, literally “moon-like”)
• ماہ نامَہ (māh-nāma, “monthly magazine”)
• ماہ بَہ ماہ (māh-ba-māh, “monthly”)
• ماہ پَیکَر (māh-paikar, “moon-shaped”)
• ماہِ نَو (māh-e-nau, “new moon”)
• مہر و ماہ (mehr-o-māh, “sun and moon”)

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