ज़माना

• जमाना (jamānā) (nuqtaless)

Borrowed from Classical Persian زمانه (zamāna), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ẕmʾnk' /⁠zamānag⁠/). Compare Punjabi ਜ਼ਮਾਨਾ (zamānā) / زَمانہ (zamānh), Gujarati જમાનો (jamāno), Marathi जमाना (jamānā), Bengali জমানা (jomana).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /zə.mɑː.nɑː/, [zɐ.mäː.näː], /d͡ʒə.mɑː.nɑː/, [d͡ʒɐ.mäː.näː]

ज़माना • (zamānā) m (Urdu spelling زَمَانَہ)

1. age, era

   Synonym: युग (yug)

2. period

   Synonym: पीढ़ी (pīṛhī)

   पुराने ज़माने में हम काम बिजली के बिना करते थे।

   purāne zamāne mẽ ham kām bijlī ke binā karte the.

   In the olden days, we worked without electricity.

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