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Urdu
Etymology
Urdu غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)
From غُنُودَہ (ġunūda, “drowsy”) + ـگی (-gī, “-ness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
غُنُودَگی • (ġunūdagī) f (Hindi spelling ग़ुनूदगी)
- drowsiness, somnolence
- Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh)
1933, Hakeem Mohammad Kabir-ud-din, بُخاروں کا اُصُولِ عِلاج [buxārõ kā usūl-i 'ilāj, The Principle of Treatment of Fevers], Delhi, page 33:اُس پر غنودگی طاری رہتی ہے، اور جب وہ سو جاتا ہے، تو وہ نیند میں بَرّانے لگتا ہے۔- us par ġunūdagī tārī rahtī hai, aur jab vo so jātā hai, to vo nīnd mẽ barrāne lagtā hai.
- Drowsiness overcomes him, and when he falls asleep, he begins to mutter in his slumber.
- (by extension) light sleep, nap
- stonedness (ie. stoned from intoxicants)
Declension
Declension of غنودگی
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singular
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plural
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غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)
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غُنُودَگِیاں (ġunūdagiyā̃)
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| oblique
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غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)
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غُنُودَگِیوں (ġunūdagiyō̃)
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| vocative
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غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)
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غُنُودَگِیو (ġunūdagiyō)
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Further reading
- “غنودگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “غنودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “غنودگی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]