لاگت

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Sanskrit लग् (lag)

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Sanskrit -यति (-yati)

Sanskrit लग्यति (lagyati)

Urdu لَگْنا (lagnā)

Urdu ـت (-t)

Urdu لاگَت (lāgat)

From لَگْنا (lagnā, “to be applied”) +‎ ـَت (-at, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑː.ɡət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: لا‧گَت

Noun

لاگَت • (lāgat) f (Hindi spelling लागत)

1. expense; cost, price (ie. the base cost of an item or service etc.)
2. outlay; expenditure

Declension

Declension of لاگت
	singular	plural
direct	لاگَت (lāgat)	لاگَتیں (lāgatẽ)
oblique	لاگَت (lāgat)	لاگَتوں (lāgatõ)
vocative	لاگَت (lāgat)	لاگَتو (lāgato)

Further reading

• “لاگت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “لاگت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لاگت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “لاگت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “لاگت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “لاگت”, 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