گناہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian گناه (gunāh).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɡʊ.nɑːɦ/, [ɡʊ.nɑː]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɦ
  • Hyphenation: گُ‧ناہ

Noun

گُناہ • (gunāh) m (Hindi spelling गुनाह)

  1. sin
    Synonym: خطیہ (xattiyah)
  2. crime, fault, guilt

Declension

Declension of گناہ
singular plural
direct گُناہ (gunāh) گُناہ (gunāh)
oblique گُناہ (gunāh) گُناہوں (gunāhõ)
vocative گُناہ (gunāh) گُناہو (gunāho)

Further reading

  • “گناہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “گناہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گناہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.