رخصتی

Urdu

Etymology

From رُخْصَت (ruxsat, “leave; permission”) +‎ ـی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾʊx.sə.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: رُخْ‧صَ‧تی

Adjective

رُخْصَتی • (ruxsatī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling रुख़्सती)

1. on leave; away; one who is away on leave or on furlough
2. (Deccani) allowable

Noun

رُخْصَتی • (ruxsatī) f (Hindi spelling रुख़्सती)

1. farewell; depart; departure
2. money or present given to someone prior to their departure
3. (Marriage) a wedding ceremony in which the bride is sent away to her husband's home, as the final ceremony

Declension

Declension of رخصتی

	singular	plural
direct	رخصتی (ruxsatī)	رخصتِیاں (ruxsatiyā̃)
oblique	رخصتی (ruxsatī)	رخصتِیوں (ruxsatiyō̃)
vocative	رخصتی (ruxsatī)	رخصتِیو (ruxsatiyō)

Further reading

• “رخصتی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “رخصتی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “رخصت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 340
• Platts, John T. (1884), “رخصتي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 490
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “رخصتي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 699
• John Shakespear (1834), “رخصتی”, 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