تودہ

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian توده (tōda, “heap, pile; mass”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪oː.d̪ᵊ/, /t̪uː.d̪ᵊ/

Noun

تُودہ or تودہ • (tūda or toda) m (Hindi spelling तोदा or तूदा)

1. mound, heap, pile; stack

   ہم تودہ پر چڑھ گئے

   ham tūda par caṛh ga'e

   we climbed up the mound

2. boundary, limit

   یہ ہمارے گاؤں کا ٹوڈا ہے

   ye hamare ga'õ kā tūda he

   this is the boundary of our village

3. crowd, mob, gathering

   تودہ گلیوں میں جمع ہو گیا

   tūda galīyõ mẽ jama' ho gyā

   a crowd has gathered in the streets

4. an earthen mound used to fire ranged weapons behind

   ساتھی تودہ پر تفنگ چاؤ

   sāthī, tūda par tufang cala'o!

   comrade, fire the gun from the mound!

Derived terms

• تودَۂِ خاک (tōda-e-xāk, “heap of earth; corpse”)
• تُودَہ بَندی (tōda-bandī)
• خاک تُودَہ (xāk-tōda, “heap of earth”)

References

• “تودہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تودہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “تودہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “تودہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.