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sphinx meaning in Urdu

اسفنکس

/ˈsfɪŋks/

sphinx in Urdu: اسفنکس. In English, sphinx means a creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.

Urdu words for sphinx

اسفنکس

English meaning of sphinx

  1. noun A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
  2. noun A person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
  3. noun A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), formerly classified as a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
  4. noun A sphinx moth.

Full definition of sphinx

sphinx in a sentence

  • a marble sphinxed chimney-piece
  • A hot lion with a very bloated stomach … will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.
  • Several animals maintained either a crouched … or a sphinxing posture (abdomen on the floor)

Synonyms of sphinx

sphinx in other languages

Questions about sphinx in Urdu

What is the meaning of sphinx in Urdu?
Sphinx in Urdu is اسفنکس.
sphinx کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Sphinx: اسفنکس.
What does sphinx mean in English?
Sphinx means a creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.

Source and license

Urdu words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “sphinx”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: sphinx (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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