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Pahari-Potwari
Etymology
Inherited from Old Punjabi ناو (nāv /nāṃu/), نامُ (nāmu), from Apabhramsa णाम (ṇāma), from Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀫 (ṇāma), from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man). Akin to Punjabi ناں (nāṉ).
Noun
ناں (nāṉ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਾਂ)
- name
Further reading
- شِیراز ،طاہِر (2016) “نآں”, in شِیراز اُلُّغات: پوٹھوہارِی لُغَت [śīrāz ulluġāt: poṭhohārī luġat, Pothohari Dictionary] (in Urdu), Peshawar: گَنْدھارا ہِنْدْکو اَکیڈْمِی (gandhārā hindko akeḍmī) , →ISBN, page 556, column 2.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nā́man”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 406