غنودگی

Urdu

FWOTD – 26 April 2024

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Classical Persian غُنُودَه (ġunūda)bor.
    Urdu غُنُودَہ (ġunūda)
    Classical Persian ـگِی (-gī)bor.
    Urdu ـگی (-gī)
    Urdu غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)

    From غُنُودَہ (ġunūda, “drowsy”) +‎ ـگی (-gī, “-ness”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɣʊ.nuː.d̪ə.ɡiː/
    • (colloquial, Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [ɣə.nuːd̪.ɡiː]
    • Rhymes: -iː
    • Hyphenation: غُ‧نُو‧دَ‧گی

    Noun

    غُنُودَگی • (ġunūdagī) f (Hindi spelling ग़ुनूदगी)

    1. drowsiness, somnolence
      Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh)
      • 1933, Hakeem Mohammad Kabir-ud-din, بُخاروں کا اُصُولِ عِلاج [buxārõ kā usūl-i 'ilāj, The Principle of Treatment of Fevers]‎[1], Delhi, page 33:
        اُس پر غنودگی طاری رہتی ہے، اور جب وہ سو جاتا ہے، تو وہ نیند میں بَرّانے لگتا ہے۔
        us par ġunūdagī tārī rahtī hai, aur jab vo so jātā hai, to vo nīnd mẽ barrāne lagtā hai.
        Drowsiness overcomes him, and when he falls asleep, he begins to mutter in his slumber.
    2. (by extension) light sleep, nap
    3. stonedness (ie. stoned from intoxicants)

    Declension

    Declension of غنودگی
    singular plural
    direct غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) غُنُودَگِیاں (ġunūdagiyā̃)
    oblique غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) غُنُودَگِیوں (ġunūdagiyō̃)
    vocative غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) غُنُودَگِیو (ġunūdagiyō)

    Further reading

    • “غنودگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    • “غنودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “غنودگی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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