ناچنا

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Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi , from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀤𑀺 (ṇaccadi), from Sanskrit नृत्यति (nṛ́tyati).

Pronunciation

Verb

نَاچْنَا (nācnā) (intransitive, Hindi spelling नाचना)

  1. to dance
  2. (figuratively) to be instrumental (ie. to follow or act on someone's order)
  3. (euphemistic) to have sexual intercourse

Conjugation

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

Further reading

  • ناچنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ناچنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناچنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 631
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ناچنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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    S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناچنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1148
  • John Shakespear (1834) “ناچنا”, 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) “nŕ̊tyati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 427