چمچ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• چَمْچَہ (camca)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چمچه (čamča, čumča), from Turkic. Compare Sylheti ꠌꠣꠝꠌ (samoso).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəm.mət͡ʃ/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃə.mət͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -ət͡ʃ

Noun

چَمَّچ • (cammac) m (Hindi spelling चम्मच)

1. spoon; ladle
2. scoop, spoon (ie. quantity-wise)
3. a type of bird

Declension

Declension of چمچ
	singular	plural
direct	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچ (cammac)
oblique	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچوں (cammacõ)
vocative	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچو (cammaco)

Further reading

• “چمچ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چمچ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “چمچ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]