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Urdu
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Compare coordinate terms کَہاں (kahā̃, “where”, interrogative), یَہاں (yahā̃, “here”), وَہاں (vahā̃, “there”)
Adverb
جَہاں • (jahā̃) (Hindi spelling जहाँ)
- (relative) where
Etymology 2
Noun
جَہاں • (jahā̃) m (Hindi spelling जहाँ)
- alternative form of جہان (jahān, “world”)
1904, Muhammad Iqbal,
Tarānā-e-Hind :
- سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہَمارا
ہم بلبلیں ہیں اس کی، یہ گلستاں ہمارا- sāre jahā̃ se acchā hindostā̃ hamārā
ham bulbulẽ ha͠i is kī, ye gulistā̃ hamārā - Better than the whole world, is our Hindustan;
We are its nightingales, and it is our flower-garden.
- (figuratively) beloved
Further reading
- “جہاں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جہاں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 240