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مس — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

mes
Pronunciation:Standard: /mes/
Noun (Masculine)plural: مسونهOrigin: Arabic → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

مس (mes) is a Pashto n-m meaning “copper” in English او په اردو کې د «تانبا» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form مسونه.

Meanings3

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
copper[agriculture]
تانبا
Example in context:

د برېښنا په مزو کې ډېر کله مس کارول کېږی.

“Copper is often used in electrical wires.”

بجلی کی تاروں میں اکثر تانبا استعمال ہوتا ہے۔

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: agricultureStatus: verified
2
Miss (title)[agriculture]
Example in context:

د هغه مس د ماشوم په تندی ډېر نرم و.

“His touch on the child's forehead was very gentle.”

بچے کی پیشانی پر اس کا لمس بہت نرم تھا۔

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: agricultureStatus: verified
3
[Classical] Copper. 2. A cup for catching lamp black. Sing. and[classical]
Page 918 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Arabic
Example in context:

د برېښنا په مزو کې ډېر کله مس کارول کېږی.

“Copper is often used in electrical wires.”

بجلی کی تاروں میں اکثر تانبا استعمال ہوتا ہے۔

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: classicalStatus: verified

Idioms5

اصطلاحات
Idiom

پولتیکی او اجتماعی مس ائل

political and social

Idiom

اوس له ئ مس دا حل شوې ده

This problem has already been solved

Idiom

حیات د او ممات له ئ مس

question of life and death

Idiom

د تاریخ پوهان دغه په یوه له ئ مس خوله ید نه

Historians do not have a

Idiom

ید شخص دئ ول ئ مس ا

He will bear

Proverbs (Mataloona)1 unique

ولسي متلونه
ولسي متل (Proverb)

«ظاهر ئی طلا ده باطن ئی مس»

“His exterior is gold, his interior is copper.”

اوپر سے سونا ہے اندر سے تانبا ہے۔

Cultural context: Critiques deceitful individuals who present a valuable and attractive face to the world while being worthless inside.

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Dir Plural (-ūnah)
مسونهmes-ūnah
Obl Plural (-ūno)
مسونوmes-ūno
Animate Plural (-ān)
مسانmes-ān
Animate Obl Plural (-āno)
مسانوmes-āno
Vocative Singular (-a)
مسهmes-a

Examples from corpora3

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

PashDict Unified Lexicon

د برېښنا په مزو کې ډېر کله مس کارول کېږی.

“Copper is often used in electrical wires.”

بجلی کی تاروں میں اکثر تانبا استعمال ہوتا ہے۔

PashDict Unified Lexicon

د هغه مس د ماشوم په تندی ډېر نرم و.

“His touch on the child's forehead was very gentle.”

بچے کی پیشانی پر اس کا لمس بہت نرم تھا۔

د پښتو متلونه (Speech)

ظاهر ئی طلا ده باطن ئی مس

“His exterior is gold, his interior is copper. — Critiques deceitful individuals who present a valuable and attractive face to the world while being worthless inside.”

اوپر سے سونا ہے اندر سے تانبا ہے۔

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
کتل ▼

Arabic

Arabic (Raverty 1860)

PashDict Sovereign 34-to-1 Unified LexiconVerified Trilingual Academic Edition · CC BY 4.0

Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword مس (mes) 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.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه