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تھا

تھا

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Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi था (thā), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀣𑀺𑀬 (thiya), from Sanskrit स्थित (sthitá), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *stʰHtás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰHtás, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂tós. Cognate with Gujarati થયો (thayo) and Latin stātus (whence French été (“was”)). ^[1]

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɑː/

Verb

تھا • (thā) (Hindi spelling था)

masculine singular imperfect indicative of ہونا (honā)

References

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sthitá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 795

Further reading

“تھا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“تھا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Platts, John T. (1884) “تها”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
John Shakespear (1834) “تھا”, 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
S. W. Fallon (1879) “تھا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 430

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