سماچار

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit समाचार (samācāra, “proceeding, conduct, news, information”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.mɑː.t͡ʃɑːɾ/

Noun

سَماچار • (samācār) m (Hindi spelling समाचार)

1. news, information message

   Synonyms: خَبَر (xabar), سَنْدیش (sandeś), پَیْغام (payġām), رِسالَہ (risāla)

2. occurrence, tradition
3. event, occurrences, incident

Derived terms

Derived terms

• سَماچار پَتْر (samācār patr, “newspaper”)

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سماچار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 775
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سماچار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 671
• “سماچار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سماچار”, 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
• “سماچار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.