لہجہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَهْجَه (lahja), from Arabic لَهْجَة (lahja).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ləɦ.d͡ʒɑ(ː)/, [lɛɦ.d͡ʒɑː]

لَہْجَہ • (lahja) m (formal plural لَہْجَات (lahjāt), Hindi spelling लहजा)

1. (linguistics) accent (ie. pronunciation)

   Synonym: تَلَفُّظ (talaffuz)

2. speech; manner of speaking^[1]

   Synonyms: بول چال (bol cāl), زَبان (zabān)

3. tone (in speech of an individual)
4. (by extension) pitch, tune^[1]
5. style (of poetry)^[1]

• “لہجہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “لہجہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “لہجه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 972
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “لـﮩجه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1056
• John Shakespear (1834), “لـﮩجه”, 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 1534