امکان

See also: امڪان, امكان, and إمكان

Gojri

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān)bor.
    Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān)bor.
    Gojri اِمْکان (imkān)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān), borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

    Noun

    اِمْکان (imkān) m[1][2]

    1. possibility, likelihood

    Further reading

    More information
    1. ^ Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 44.
    2. ^ Javaid Rahi (2015) “اِمکان”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 113, column 1.

    Persian

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

      Pronunciation

       

      Readings
      Classical reading? imkān
      Dari reading? imkān
      Iranian reading? emkân
      Tajik reading? imkon

      Noun

      Dari امکان
      Iranian Persian
      Tajik имкон

      امکان • (imkān / emkân) (plural امکانات (imkānāt / emkânât), or امکان‌ها (imkān-hā / emkân-hâ), Tajik spelling имкон)

      1. possibility
        • 2024 April 30, “یک سند محرمانه از تعرض جنسی به نیکا شاکرمی و جزئیات قتل او به دست نیروهای امنیتی ایران پرده برداشت”, in bbc.com/persian‎[1], BBC Persian:
          مجموع اسناد این امکان را به بی‌بی‌سی داده است تا آنچه را که بر نیکا شاکرمی، ۱۶ ساله، از زمان بازداشت تا ناپدید شدن او گذشت بازسازی کند.
          majmu'-e asnâd in emkân râ be bi-bi-si dâde ast tâ ânče râ ke bar nikâ šâkarâmi, 19 sâle, az zamân-e bâzdâšt tâ nâpadid šodan-e u gozašt bâzsâzi konad.
          The collection of documents gave BBC the opportunity to reconstruct what Nika Shakarami, aged 19, had gone through from the time of her arrest until her disappearance.
        • 2024 May 14, “چگونه صدها کودک افغان در منطقه‌ای آموزش می‌بینند که زمانی هدف «مادر بمب‌ها» بود؟”, in bbc.com/persian‎[2], BBC Persian:
          جنگ کودکان زیادی را در این ولسوالی یتیم گذاشته است که در کنار سایر مشکلات از امکانات رفتن به مدرسه محروم شده‌اند.
          jang kudakân-e ziyâdi râ dar in volosvâli yatim gozâšte ast ke dar kenâr-e sâyer-e moškelât az emkânât-e raftan be madrese mahrum šode'and.
          The war orphaned many children in this district who were, besides all the other problems, derived of any possibility of going to school.

      Derived terms

      • امکان‌پذیر (imkān-pazīr / emkân-pazir)
      Persian terms derived from the Arabic root م ك ن (0 c, 3 e)

      Descendants

      • → Gojri: اِمْکان (imkān)
      • → Kashmiri: اِمکان (imkān)
      • → Middle Hindi: امکان (amkan /⁠imkān⁠/)
      • → Punjabi: īmkān
        Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਕਾਨ (imakān)
        Shahmukhi script: اِمْکان (īmkān)
      • → Saraiki:
        Multani script: 𑊁𑊠𑊄𑊚 (imkn /⁠īmkān⁠/)
        Shahmukhi script: اِمْکان (īmkān)
      • → Sindhi: imkānu
        Arabic script: اِمْڪانُ
        Devanagari script: इम्कानु
        Khudabadi script: 𑊲𑋗𑋪𑊺𑋠𑋑𑋣
      • → Uyghur: ئىمكان (imkan)
      • → Uzbek: imkon

      Further reading

      Punjabi

      Etymology

        Etymology tree
        Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān)bor.
        Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān)bor.
        Punjabi اِمْکان (īmkān)

        Borrowed from Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān), borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

        Noun

        اِمْکان • (īmkān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਇਮਕਾਨ)

        1. possibility, likelihood

        Further reading

        • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “اِمکان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz, page 146
        • “ਇਮਕਾਨ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

        Saraiki

        Etymology

          Etymology tree
          Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān)bor.
          Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān)bor.
          Saraiki اِمْکان (īmkān)

          Borrowed from Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān), borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

          Noun

          اِمْکان (īmkān) m (Multani 𑊁𑊠𑊄𑊚)[1]

          1. possibility, likelihood

          References

          1. ^ سَعْدُاْللّٰہ خان کھیتْرَن ،مُحَمَّد [Sadullah Khan Khetran, Muhammad] (2016) “اِمکان”, in پَہْلِی وَڈّی سَرائِیکی لُغَت: سَرائِیکی تُوں اُرْدُو [pahlī vaḍḍī sarā'īkī luġat: sarā'īkī tūṉ urdū, The First Comprehensive Saraiki Dictionary: From Saraiki to Urdu] (in Urdu), Multan: بَہَاءْ اُلْدِّین زَکَرِیّا یُونِیوَرْسِٹِی [Bahauddin Zakariya University], page 42, column 1.

          Urdu

          Etymology

            Etymology tree
            Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān)bor.
            Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān)bor.
            Urdu اِمْکان (imkān)

            Borrowed from Classical Persian اِمْکَان (imkān), borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).[1] First attested in 1708[2] as Middle Hindi امکان (amkan /⁠imkān⁠/).

            Pronunciation

            • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪm.kɑːn/
            • Rhymes: -ɑːn
            • Hyphenation: اِم‧کان

            Noun

            اِمْکان • (imkān) m (formal plural اِمْکانات (imkānāt), Hindi spelling इमकान)

            1. possibility, probability
            2. means, courage
            3. control
            4. contingent existence
            5. this world, existence

            Declension

            Declension of امکان
            singular plural
            direct اِمْکان (imkān) اِمْکان (imkān)
            oblique اِمْکان (imkān) اِمْکانوں (imkānõ)
            vocative اِمْکان (imkān) اِمْکانو (imkāno)

            Derived terms

            • اِمْکانِی (imkānī)

            References

            More information
            1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “imkān”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 343.
            2. ^ “امکان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

            Further reading

            • “امکان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
            • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امکان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 74
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