سجن

• IPA^(key): /sid͡ʒn/

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سَجَنَ • (sajana) I (non-past يَسْجُنُ (yasjunu), verbal noun سَجْن (sajn))

1. to confine, to imprison
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:32:

     وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَا آمُرُهُ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ

     walaʔin lam yafʕal mā ʔāmuruhu layusjananna walayakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāḡirīna

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2. to conceal in one's inner

سَجْن • (sajn) m

1. verbal noun of سَجَنَ (sajana) (form I)
2. confinement, imprisonment

سِجْن • (sijn) m (plural سُجُون (sujūn))

1. prison, jail

Inherited from Old Punjabi سجن (sjn /⁠sjn⁠/) / ساجن (sājan), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀡 (sajjaṇa), from Sanskrit सज्जन (sajjana, “good man”), from सन्त् (sánt) +‎ जन (jána). Cognate with Saraiki سَجَّݨ (sajjaṇ) / سَجَݨ (sajaṇ), Sindhi سَڄَڻُ (saj̄aṇu), Marathi साजण (sājaṇ) and Urdu ساجَن (sājan) / Hindi साजन (sājan).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /səd͡ʒ.d͡ʒəɳᵊ/

سَجَّݨ • (sajjaṇ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੱਜਣ)

1. (poetic) lover; beloved
2. friend, companion
3. husband
4. (formal, often in the vocative) dear, respected (people)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سجّن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “سجن”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਸੱਜਣ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sajjana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 757

From Arabic سَجَنَ (sajana).

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʒan/, [ˈsa.ʒan], [ˈsa.d͡ʒan]

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سجن • (sajan) I (present بسجن (bisjin))

1. to imprison

   Synonym: حبس (ḥabas)