انجام

From Persian اَنجام (anjâm).

انجام • (anjām) m

1. end, conclusion, outcome
2. tip, extremity

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠hanǰām⁠/, “end, completion, outcome”), from Old Persian [script needed] (*hanǰāma-, “end, conclusion”), from Proto-Iranian *ham- + *gam (“to come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, stand”). Compare Sanskrit संगम (saṃgama).

انجام • (anjâm)

1. end, conclusion

   Antonyms: آغاز (âġâz), شُروع (šoru')

   • c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “Qaṣīda 115”, in دیوان فرخی سیستانی [Dīvān of Farrukhī]‎^[1]:

     در همه شغلها که دست برد
     نیکش آغاز و نیکتر انجام

     dar hama šugl-hā ki dast burd
     nēk-aš āġāz u nēktar anjām

     For every work you have done,
     Its beginning was good, its end was better.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. accomplishment, action

انجام • (anjâm)

1. present stem form of انجامیدن (anjâmidan)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “انجام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hnc’m”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 42
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 26
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*gam¹”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98

Borrowed from Classical Persian انجام (anjām), from Middle Persian [script needed] (hanǰām, “end, completion, outcome”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ən.d͡ʒɑːm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm

اَنْجام • (anjām) m (Hindi spelling अंजाम)

1. end, finishing
2. result, conclusion

   اس کا انجام ٹھیک نہیں ہو گا۔

   is kā añjām ṭhīk nahī̃ ho gā

   The result of it won't be right.

• Platts, John T. (1884) “انجام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From Urdu انجام (anjām).

انجام (anjām)

1. end, finishing
2. result, conclusion