محنت

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See also: مخنث and مجنب

Persian

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna)bor.
    Persian محنت

    Borrowed from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? mihnat
    Dari reading? mehnat
    Iranian reading? mehnat
    Tajik reading? mehat

    Noun

    مِحْنَت • (mehnat)

    1. tribulation, toil, hardship

    Descendants

    Sindhi

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Classical Persian محنت (mihnat), from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

    Noun

    مِحْنَتَ • (mihnata) f

    1. labor

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    Further reading

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna)bor.
      Classical Persian مِحْنَت (mihnat)bor.
      Urdu مِحْنَت (mihnat)

      Borrowed from Classical Persian مِحْنَت (mihnat), borrowed from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi محنت (mḥnt /⁠mihnat⁠/).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      مِحْنَت • (mihnat) f (Hindi spelling मेहनत)

      1. hard work, effort
      2. toil, labour
      3. hardship

      Declension

      Declension of محنت
      singular plural
      direct مِحْنَت (mihnat) مِحْنَتیں (mihnatẽ)
      oblique مِحْنَت (mihnat) مِحْنَتوں (mihnatõ)
      vocative مِحْنَت (mihnat) مِحْنَتو (mihnato)

      References

      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “محنت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
      2. ^ “محنت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

      • “محنت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
      • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “محنت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
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