Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

aurchaepiyo · March 16, 2011, 4:46pm

Is the English word بل the most common word used for bill, or is there some other word in Urdu for those demand notes from the utilities?..

lethal_kamikaze · March 16, 2011, 10:44pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

I guess 'Chaalan' :@:

aurchaepiyo · March 17, 2011, 2:57am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

Would you say something like bijli ka chalaan?

blessed2006 · March 17, 2011, 3:27am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

i think it will be called "raseed"...though not fully correct but to some extent yes.

aurchaepiyo · March 17, 2011, 4:46am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

Is this raseed word an Arabic or Persian derived word, or is it from the English "receipt"?

blessed2006 · March 17, 2011, 4:52am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

i think its derived from the english word "receipt" because i havenot heard any arabic or persian associations with it.

Faris_Udeen · March 17, 2011, 10:12am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

Raseed is Persian derived, the English and Urdu speakers borrowed this from Farsi vocabulary, just like many other words. :)

aurchaepiyo · March 17, 2011, 2:53pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

Great, thank you!

Next question: which is more commonly used bil or raseed?

lethal_kamikaze · March 17, 2011, 3:20pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for “bill”?

wait wait wait. First lets clear about the ‘bill’

blessed2006 · March 17, 2011, 3:32pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

they are both commonly used (in pakistan or outside like uk)

for example for electricity, gas, telephone etc its always bill and for shops/stores from where you have bought something its receipt....very few people call shop receipts, bill.

lethal_kamikaze · March 17, 2011, 3:38pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

In arabic we call 'bill' as 'Fatora'. Raseed like others said is used in persian and farsi.

I guess both r used commonly and like b06 said, i agree.

Doppleganger · March 17, 2011, 4:17pm

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That is for ticket.

lethal_kamikaze · March 17, 2011, 6:59pm

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for “bill”?

^
oky :k:

KKF · March 19, 2011, 1:05am

Re: Is there another word in Urdu besides بل for "bill"?

**sorry for the late reply. i missed this post somehow.

as u said BILL is commonly used in urdu...more so than the real urdu word for it. if i use those urdu words, probably, most peoplw now a days won't understand.

as far as i know, there are a few urdu words for bill depending upon its usage in english. here are those words:

raseed
beejak
bilTii
chiTThaa
parchah
fard-e-Hisaab
kaifiiyat-e-iKhraajaat
qabaalah
bai' naamah**
naama-e-indiraaj-e-iKhraajaat