گنا

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Punjabi ਗੰਨਾ / گَنّا (gannā).

Pronunciation

Noun

گَنّا • (gannām (Hindi spelling गन्ना)

  1. sugar cane

Declension

Declension of گنا
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.