آشنا

آشنا (âşnâ)

1. Arabic spelling of âşnâ (“familiar”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾšnwʾk' /⁠āšnāg⁠/, “known”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Note also Old Persian [script needed] (ašnaiy, “near”). Possibly akin to Old Armenian Աշնակ (Ašnak, a male given name). Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know, to be acquainted with”).

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آشنا • (âšnâ or âšenâ)

1. acquainted
2. familiar, accustomed

آشنا • (âšnâ or âšenâ) (plural آشنایان (âšnâyân), or آشناها)

1. acquaintance, friend
   • late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “زاهد خلوت‌نشین دوش به میخانه شد”, in دیوان حافظ [Divān of Ḥāfeẓ]:

     مغبچه‌ای می‌گذشت راهزن دین و دل، در پی آن آشنا از همه بیگانه شد.

     moġ-bačče-ye mi-gozašt râhzan-e din o del, dar pey-e ân âšnâ az hame bigâne šod.

     A Magian child was passing by, [that] bandit of faith and hearts; to follow that friendly one, he stopped knowing anyone else.

• → Azerbaijani: aşna
• → Bashkir: әшнә (əşnə)
• → Gujarati: આશના (āśanā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आशना (āśnā)

  Urdu: آشْنا (āśnā)

• → Khalaj: âşnâ
• → Tatar: әшнә (äşnä)

• Herzenberg, L. G. (2014) “Studies in Persian Etymology II”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, published by P. A. Kocharov and A. V. Shatskov, page 37 of 19–48
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 34(1), page 8
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āšnāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 13

Borrowed from Classical Persian آشْنَا (āšnā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ.nɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: آشْ‧نا

آشْنا • (āśnā) m (Hindi spelling आशना)

1. friend; acquaintance
2. lover, paramour

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “آشنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 95
• Platts, John T. (1884) “آشنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 58
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آشنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 12
• “آشنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “آشنا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 100
• “آشنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

اَشنا (ašnā)

1. familiar