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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جَهَنَّم (jahannam), borrowed from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam), borrowed from Aramaic גֵּיהִנָּם. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi جہنم (jhnm /jahannam/).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
جَہَنَّم • (jahannam) m (Hindi spelling जहन्नम)
- (Islam) hell
- Synonym: دوزَخ (dozax)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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جَہَنَّم (jahannam)
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جَہَنَّم (jahannam)
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| oblique
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جَہَنَّم (jahannam)
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جَہَنَّموں (jahannamõ)
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| vocative
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جَہَنَّم (jahannam)
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جَہَنَّمو (jahannamo)
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References
- ^ “جہنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
- “جہنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جہنم”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “جـﮩنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “جـﮩنم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 665