بکواس

Urdu

Etymology

بَکوا (bakvā, “talkative, chattery, garrulous”) +‎ ـآس (-ās, noun suffix).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bək.ʋɑːs/

Noun

بَکواس • (bakvās) f (Hindi spelling बकवास)

  1. talkativeness, garrulity, chatter, blathering
  2. (common) rubbish, nonsense
    کیا بکواس ہے! ― kyā bakvās hai! ― What rubbish!
    بکواس بند کرو۔ ― bakvās band karo. ― Stop this nonsense.

Derived terms
  • بَکواسی (bakvāsī)

References
  • “بکواس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بکواس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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