ٹالنا

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Urdu

Etymology

Urdu verb set
ٹَلْنا (ṭalnā)
ٹالْنا (ṭālnā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀝𑀸𑀮𑀤𑀺 (ṭāladi, removes, frightens away), from Sanskrit टालयति (ṭālayati, cause to move).

Pronunciation

Verb

ٹالْنا (ṭālnā) (transitive, Hindi spelling टालना)

  1. to defer, postpone or procrastinate
  2. to prevaricate, evade or avert

Conjugation

  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

  • ٹالنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ٹالنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ٹالنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ٹالنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ṭálati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press