لکھنا

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Urdu

Etymology

Urdu verb set
لِکْھنا (likhnā)
لِکھانا (likhānā)
لِکْھوَانا (likhvānā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑀺𑀳𑀤𑀺 (lihadi), from Sanskrit लिखति (likháti). Cognate with Nepali लेख्नु (lekhnu).

Pronunciation

Verb

لِکْھنا (likhnā) (Hindi spelling लिखना)

  1. to write
    1. to note down, write down
      یہ لِکھِئےye likhie(please) write it down
    2. (transitive) to name
  2. to prescribe (in writing)
  3. (poetic) to destine

Conjugation

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

Further reading

  • لکھنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • لکھنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لکھنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “likháti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 641