Dhoka Meaning in English

The Correct Meaning of Dhoka in English is Decoy. Other similar words for Dhoka include Dhoka, Daam and Faraib. Explore this page to Translate Dhoka (Decoy) into English accurately.

Dhoka

دھوکہ

Decoy

[noun dee-koi, dih-koi; verb dih-koi]

Definitions of Decoy

n. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.

n. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

n. A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

n. A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

transitive v. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice

Form Noun

How To Spell Decoy [noun dee-koi, dih-koi; verb dih-koi]

Origin of Decoy Mid 16th century (earlier as coy): from Dutch de kooi ‘the decoy’, from Middle Dutch de kouw ‘the cage’, from Latin cavea ‘cage’. decoy (sense 2 of the noun) is from the practice of using tamed ducks to lead wild ones along channels into capti

Dhoka Meaning from Urdu to English is Decoy, and in Urdu it is written as دھوکہ. This word is written in Roman Urdu.

Dhoka Meaning in English - Find the correct meaning of Dhoka in English, it is important to understand the word properly when we translate it from Urdu to English. There are always several meanings of each word in English, the correct meaning of Dhoka in English is Decoy, and in Urdu we write it دھوکہ The word Decoy is an noun. It is spelled as [noun dee-koi, dih-koi; verb dih-koi]. It finds its origins in Mid 16th century (earlier as coy): from Dutch de kooi ‘the decoy’, from Middle Dutch de kouw ‘the cage’, from Latin cavea ‘cage’. decoy (sense 2 of the noun) is from the practice of using tamed ducks to lead wild ones along channels into capti. There are also several similar words to Dhoka in our dictionary, which are Allurement, Attraction, Beard, Blind, Booster, Camouflage, Catch, Chicane, Chicanery, Deception, Enticement, Facade, Fake, Front, Imitation, Inducement, Inveiglement, Lure, Plant, Seducement, Shill, Snare, Stick, Temptation, Trick, Trickery, Sitting Duck, Stool Pigeon, Nark, Pretense, Ensnarement, Blow Off and Drawing Card. Apart from similar words, there are always opposite words in dictionary too, the opposite words for Dhoka are Discouragement, Frankness, Honesty, Openness, Original, Reality, Repulsion, Truth and Truthfulness. After Urdu to English translation of Dhoka, If you have issues in pronunciation than you can hear the audio of it in the online dictionary.

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