جناب

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.naːb/

جِنَاب • (jināb) m

1. verbal noun of جَنَبَ (janaba) (form I)

• → Ottoman Turkish: جِناب (cinâb)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.naːb/

جَنَاب • (janāb) m

1. a title of respect

   جَنَابْكُمْ ― janābkum ― your Honor

• → Chagatai: جَناب
  • Uyghur: جاناپ (janap)
  • Uzbek: janob
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: جناب (cänāb)
  • Azerbaijani: cənab
  • ⇒ Gagauz: Canabin
  • Ottoman Turkish: جناب (cenab)
    • Turkish: cenap
• → Pashto: جَناب
• → Persian: جَناب (janâb)
  • → Bengali: জনাব (jonab)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: जनाब (janāb)

    Urdu: جَناب (janāb)

  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਜਨਾਬ (janāb)

    Shahmukhi script: جَناب (janāb)

• → Sindhi: جَنابُ
• → Tatar: җәнап (cänap)
• → Turkmen: jenap

Borrowed from Urdu چَنَاب (canāb), ultimately from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.naːb/

جَنَاب • (janāb) m

1. Chenab (a river in Pakistan)
   • 1972, Ḥasan Amīn, دائرة المعارف الإسلامية الشيعية‎^[1], volume 9, page 381:

     وعوام الناس نهر راوي ونهر جناب ونهر هندوس

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   • 1997, ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Ulughkhānī, Ẓafar al-wālih bi-Muẓaffar wa-ālihi fī tārīkh Kujarāt‎^[2]:

     فلم يجد بدا من مفارقة وجهه فنهض في أواخر جمادی الاخرى ومعه اخوته وعبر نهر لوهور وسلك الطريق الى ان نزل على نهر جناب

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   • 2010, محمد عوض الهزايمة, قضايا دولية‎^[3], page 246:

     الدعاة المسلمين واسمه (بلبل) إلى كشمير، (1) ولاية كشمير الإسلامية ذات طبيعة جبلية، فيها سهلان في منطقة وادي جمو ووادي كشمير، كثيرة الأنهار. وأهم أنهارها نهر السند ونهر جليم ونهر جناب: وهي الأنهار التي تنساب إلى باكستان

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جناب

1. Arabic spelling of cənab

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

جناب (janab)

1. a title of respect

• Uyghur: جاناپ (janap)
• Uzbek: janob

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

جناب • (cänāb)

1. a title of respect

   جنابڭز ― cänābuŋuz ― your Honor

• Azerbaijani: cənab
• ⇒ Gagauz: Canabin
• Ottoman Turkish: جناب (cenab)
  • Turkish: cenap

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cenap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Arabic جِنَاب (jināb).

جِناب • (cinâb)

1. a being at, or coming to the side of another
2. a being or becoming distant: a shunning

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جناب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 679

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جناب (cänāb), from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

جَناب • (cenâb)

1. a title of respect

   جنابڭز ― cenâbıñız ― your Honor

• Turkish: cenap

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جناب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 679

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

جناب • (janâb)

1. a title of respect: sir, mister, Excellency

• → Bengali: জনাব (jonab)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जनाब (janāb)

  Urdu: جَناب (janāb)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਜਨਾਬ (janāb)

  Shahmukhi script: جَناب (janāb)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جناب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

جَنابُ • (janābu) m (Devanagari जनाबु)

1. your Honor

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “جَنابُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “جناب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Borrowed from Classical Persian جناب (janāb), from Arabic جَنَاب (janāb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nɑːb/

جناب • (janāb) m (Hindi spelling जनाब)

1. sir, mister
2. Excellency, Honour
3. (India, law) form of address for a judge

• “جناب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جناب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.