लोह

Borrowed from Sanskrit लोह (lohá). Doublet of लोहा (lohā).

लोह • (loh) m (Urdu spelling لوه‎)

1. iron (either crude or wrought)
2. steel
3. metal
4. (rare) a weapon
5. (rare) blood

• इस्पात (ispāt)
• फ़ौलाद (faulād)

• लोहा (lohā)

• John T. Platts (accessed 08-20-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎

From Sanskrit लोह (lohá).

लोह n

1. metal, especially copper, brass, or bronze

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrawdʰás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawdʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós (“red thing”), from *h₁rewdʰ (“red”). Cognate with Middle Persian lwd (rôy, “brass”).

The -h- instead of the expected -dh- seems to be a standard dissimilation of dh…t to h…t across the whole paradigm for रुध् (rudh) in the dialect on which Classical Sanskrit was based, compare रोहित (róhita, “red mare”), नीललोहित (nīlalohitá, “dark blue and red”), but रुधिर (rudhirá, “red”).[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /l̪ɐw.ɦɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈl̪oː.ɦɐ/

लोह • (lohá) (Vedic lauhá or laudhá)

1. red, reddish, copper-coloured
2. made of copper
3. made of iron

लोह • (lohá) m or n (Vedic lauhá or laudhá)

1. red metal, copper

लोह • (lohá) m (Vedic lauhá or laudhá)

1. (in later language) iron (either crude or wrought) or steel or gold or any metal
2. weapon
3. fish-hook
4. blood
5. red goat (compare लोहाज (lohā-ja))
6. (probably) a kind of bird
7. name of a man
8. (in the plural) name of a people

लोह • (lohá) n (Vedic lauhá or laudhá)

1. any object or vessel made of iron
2. aloe wood, Agallochum

• Monier Williams (1899), “लोह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0908.