سپنا

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from *swep- + *-nós. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi سپنا (spna /⁠sapnā⁠/).^[1] Doublet of خْوَاب (xvāb).

Cognates include Latin somnus, Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos), Old English swefn, and (English sweven).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səp.nɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: سَپ‧نا

سَپْنا • (sapnā) m (Hindi spelling सपना)

1. dream, reverie, vision

   Synonyms: خْوَاب (xvāb), (rare) رُؤیا (ruyā)

   تھوڑی دیر کے بعد، اُن کے سپنے سچّے نکلے۔

   thoṛī der ke ba'ad, un ke sapne sacce nikle.

   After a little while, their dreams became true.

• “سپنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “سپنا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]