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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi آن٘کھ (ā̃kh) / اَن٘کھ (aṅkh), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀺 (akkhi), from Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Cognates include Assamese আখি (akhi), Bengali আঁখি (ãkhi), Bhojpuri आँखि (ā̃khi), Gujarati આંખ (ā̃kha), Kashmiri أچھ / ॳछ (ạch), Maithili आँखि (ā̃khɨ), Odia ଆଖି (akhi), Punjabi اَکّھ (akkh), Romani jakh, and Sindhi اَکہِ (akhi).
Pronunciation
Noun
آن٘کھ • (ā̃kh) f (Hindi spelling आँख or आंख)
- (anatomy) eye
- Synonym: نَین (nain)
- glance, look
- Synonym: نَظَر (nazar)
Declension
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plural
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آنکھ (ā̃kh)
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آنکھیں (ā̃khẽ)
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| oblique
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آنکھ (ā̃kh)
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آنکھوں (ā̃khõ)
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| vocative
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آنکھ (ā̃kh)
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آنکھو (ā̃kho)
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Further reading
- “آنکھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “آنکھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آنکھ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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- S. W. Fallon (1879) “آنکهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 161
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.John Shakespear (1834) “انکهہ”, 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
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ákṣi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 3
