گنا
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Punjabi ਗੰਨਾ / گَنّا (gannā).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɡən.nɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
گَنّا • (gannā) m (Hindi spelling गन्ना)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | گَنّا (gannā) | گَنّے (ganne) |
| oblique | گَنّے (ganne) | گَنّوں (gannõ) |
| vocative | گَنّے (ganne) | گَنّو (ganno) |
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gaṇḍa2”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 214: “P. gannā m. 'sugarcane' (→ H. gannā m.)”
Further reading
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “گنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1007
- Platts, John T. (1884) “گنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 916
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 527
- “گنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- John Shakespear (1834) “گنا”, 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, page 1460
- “گنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.