م — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition
م (mim) is a Pashto n-m meaning “the thirty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet; number 40 in the abjad system” in English او په اردو کې د «حرف، اکشر، پشتو» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.
Meanings2
ماناوې او تعریفونهIdioms3
اصطلاحاتم سافر بېړۍ ېک وړون
passenger ship
م یاشت په میاشت
from month to month
م یی نسا رضونه
female diseases
Grammar — Word forms
د کلمې ګردان او بڼېد کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)کتل ▼
Native Pashto
Native Pashto (Raverty 1860)
Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes
علمي او ژبني معلوماتGrammar & Morphological Classification
The headword م (mim) functions as a n-m in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.
Phonological & Dialectal Realization
Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.