غلط فہمی

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غَلَط فَهْمِی (ġalat fahmī). By surface analysis, غَلَط (ġalat, “wrong, incorrect”) +‎ فَہْم (fahm, “understanding”) +‎ -ی (-ī, noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɣə.lət̪ fəɦ.miː/, [ɣə.lət̪ fɛɦ.miː]

Noun

غَلَط فَہْمی • (ġalat fahmī) f (Hindi spelling ग़लतफ़हमी)

1. misunderstanding

   شایَد آپ کو غَلَط فَہْمی ہُئی ہَے۔

   śāyad āp ko ġalat fahmī huī hai.

   Perhaps you are mistaken.

Declension

Declension of غلط فہمی

	singular	plural
direct	غَلَط فَہْمی (ġalat fahmī)	غَلَط فَہْمِیاں (ġalat fahmiyā̃)
oblique	غَلَط فَہْمی (ġalat fahmī)	غَلَط فَہْمِیوں (ġalat fahmiyō̃)
vocative	غَلَط فَہْمی (ġalat fahmī)	غَلَط فَہْمِیو (ġalat fahmiyō)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “غلط فہمی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 862
• Platts, John T. (1884), “غلط فہمی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 772
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “غلط+فہمی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 445
• “غلط+فہمی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “غلط”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1243
• “غلط+فہمی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.