False friend in Hindi — Meaning of झूठा दोस्त (jhūṭhā dost)

📖 Meaning of “false friend”

The meaning of “false friend” in Hindi is झूठा दोस्त, pronounced jhūṭhā dost — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.

📘 Definition of false friend

A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

✍️ False friend in a sentence

A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.

🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)

Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).

Quick facts about “false friend”

Everything we know about this word at a glance.

Word (English)

False friend

Meaning in Hindi

झूठा दोस्त

Pronunciation

jhūṭhā dost

Part of speech

Noun

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Hindi meaning of "false friend" is झूठा दोस्त (jhūṭhā dost).

In Devanagari script it is written as झूठा दोस्त.

It is pronounced "jhūṭhā dost". Tap the speaker icon on this page to hear it aloud.

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