ناکہ

Urdu

Alternative forms

  • ناکا (nākā)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit [Term?].

Pronunciation

Noun

نَاکَہ • (nāka) m (Hindi spelling नाका)

  1. checkpost (ie. police related)
  2. a toll/customs' station
  3. avenue; lane
  4. eye of a needle
  5. the entrance to a road or a pass
  6. the end/extremity of a road
  7. the point of meeting between two or more roads
  8. an opening/gap (ie. between a hedge; fence; bank etc.)

Declension

Declension of ناکہ
singular plural
direct نَاکَہ (nākah) نَاکے (nāke)
oblique نَاکے (nāke) نَاکوں (nākõ)
vocative نَاکے (nāke) نَاکو (nāko)

Further reading

  • “ناکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ناکا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ناکا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناکا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “ناکا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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