आशना

• आश्ना (āśnā)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آشنا (āšnā), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ.nɑː/, [äːʃ.näː]

आशना • (āśnā) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling آشنا)

1. lover, paramour

   Synonyms: प्रेमी (premī), आशिक़ (āśiq)

   • Chakbast Brij Narayan:

     अगर दर्द-ए-मोहब्बत से न इन्साँ आश्ना होता
     न कुछ मरने का ग़म होता न जीने का मज़ा होता

     agar dard-e-mohabbat se na insā̃ āśnā hotā
     na kuch marne kā ġam hotā na jīne kā mazā hotā

     If the pain of love would not compel man to become lover
     then there would be no pain in death nor joy in life

2. friend, companion

   Synonyms: दोस्त (dost), मित्र (mitra)

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “आशना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press