यह

Braj

Pronoun

यह (yah)

  1. this
    • Sūrdās, Sūrsāgar 30.1:
      इहिं बँसुरी सखि सबै चुरायौ
      ihĩ bãsurī sakhi sabai curāyau
      • 1991 translation by Rupert Snell
        this flute, friend, has stolen everything
  2. he, she, it (proximal)

Alternative forms


Hindi

Etymology

From Old Hindi यहु (yahu), from Sanskrit एष (eṣa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jəʱ/, [jeː], [jəɦ(ə)]

Pronoun

यह (yah) (Urdu spelling يہ)

  1. this one; he; she; it (proximal third person singular personal pronoun)
    यह कौन है?yah kaun hai?Who is this [person]?

Coordinate terms

Determiner

यह (yah) (Urdu spelling يہ)

  1. this
    यह मकान बहुत बड़ा है।yah makān bahut baṛā hai.This house is large.

Inflection

Declension of यह
direct यह (yah)
indirect इस (is)
ergative इसने (isne)
genitive इसका (iskā)
dative इसे (ise) , इसको (isko)

References

  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), यह”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Platts, John T. (1884), यह”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.
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