مثلا

See also: مثلاً

Arabic

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, “example”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.θa.lan/

Adverb

مَثَلًا • (maṯalan)

1. for example

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: məsələn
• → Bashkir: мәҫәлән (məśələn)
• → Chagatai: مثلا
  • Uyghur: مەسەلەن (meselen)
  • Uzbek: masalan
• → Crimean Tatar: meselâ
• → Kazakh: мәселен (mäselen)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مثلا
  • Turkish: mesela
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸਲਨ (maslan)

  Shahmukhi script: مَثَلاً (mas̱alan)

• → Pashto: مثلا (masalan)
• → Persian: مَثَلاً (masalan)
• → Swahili: mathalani
• → Tatar: мәсәлән (mäsälän)
• → Turkmen: meselem
• → Urdu: مَثَلاً (masalan)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (mesela)

1. as an example, for instance

Descendants

• Turkish: mesela

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مثلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1742

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

1. for example

Further reading

• "مثلاً", Qamosona.com

Persian

Alternative forms

• مثلن (masalan) (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan), from the adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal). By surface analysis, مثل (masal) +‎ ـاً (-an).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.sa.lan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.län]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.län]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.län]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.län]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.sæ.læn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.län]

Readings
Classical reading?	masalan
Dari reading?	masalan
Iranian reading?	masalan
Tajik reading?	masalan

Adverb

Dari	مثلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	масалан

مَثَلاً • (masalan)

1. for example

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan).

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (mas̱alan) (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸਲਨ)

1. for example

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مثلاً”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م ث ل
3 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan).

Adverb

مثلا • (masalan)

1. Alternative form of متلا (matalan, “for example”)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَثَلًا (maṯalan) via Classical Persian مَثَلاً (masalan).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.sə.lən/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /məs.lən/

Adverb

مَثَلاً • (masalan) (Hindi spelling मसलन)

1. for example, for instance, e.g.; namely

Further reading

• “مثلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مثلاً”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.