جنم

جنم • (janam)

1. (archaic) seed, origin; nature, essence; existence
2. (colloquial) courage and audacity (to do something)

• جنم داشتن (janam dâštan)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma). Doublet of جَمّݨا (jammṇā).

جَنَم • (janam) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜਨਮ)

1. birth

   جَنَم نال آپاں شُرُوع کردے آں

   janam nāl āpāṉ śurūʻ krde āṉ

   We start with (the) birth

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

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma). Doublet of ڄم (j̄amu).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nə.mʊ/

جَنَمُ • (janamu) m (Devanagari जनमु)

1. birth

   جَنَمُ ڏِينهُن مُبارڪ ― janamu ḍ̠īhũ mubārak ― Happy Birthday

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “جَنَمُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 178
• “جنم”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जन्म (janma).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nəm/
• Rhymes: -əm

جَنَم • (janam) m (Hindi spelling जन्म or जनम)

1. birth; emergence

   جَدِید نَثْر اُرْدُو کا جَنَم فورْٹ وِلّیَم کالِج کَلْکَتَّہ میں ہُوا^[1]

   jadīd nasr urdū kā janam forṭ villyam kālij kalkatta mẽ huā

   The birth of modern Urdu prose occurred in Fort William College, Calcutta

• “جنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جنم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 234
• Platts, John T. (1884) “جنم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 392
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 484