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Punjabi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma). Doublet of جَمّݨا (jammṇā).
Noun
جَنَم • (janam) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜਨਮ)
- birth
جَنَم نال آپاں شُرُوع کردے آں- janam nāl āpāṉ śurūʻ krde āṉ
- We start with (the) birth
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “جنم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “ਜਨਮ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
Sindhi
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma). Doublet of ڄم (j̄amu).
Pronunciation
Noun
جَنَمُ • (janamu) m (Devanagari जनमु)
- birth
- جَنَمُ ڏِينهُن مُبارڪ ― janamu ḍ̠īhũ mubārak ― Happy Birthday
Further reading
- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “جَنَمُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 178
- “جنم”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
Urdu
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma).
Pronunciation
Noun
جَنَم • (janam) m (Hindi spelling जन्म or जनम)
- birth; emergence
جَدِید نَثْر اُرْدُو کا جَنَم فورْٹ وِلّیَم کالِج کَلْکَتَّہ میں ہُوا[1]- jadīd nasr urdū kā janam forṭ villyam kālij kalkatta mẽ huā
- The birth of modern Urdu prose occurred in Fort William College, Calcutta
References
- ^ “جنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
- “جنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جنم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 234
- Platts, John T. (1884) “جنم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 392
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “جنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 484