Synonymy
Richards
and Schmidt (2002, p.533) defines synonymy as “a word which has the same
sense, or nearly the same as another word”. Synonyms can be defined as
words that are different in sound and spelling but are same
in meaning.
Examples
from the Urdu language:
/دکھ 'رنج
درخت / پیڑ
وقت / ساعت
مسرت/ خوشی
توک/ بھروسہ
/خاوند،میاں/شوہر
Here in this example all words are identical to each other which shares the same meaning i.e sadness and these words are synonyms to each other. Similarly, the Urdu words used to call father are
/ والدابو,
these words are also synonymy
