سماں

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi سماں (smaṉ) (c. 1780),[1] from Prakrit 𑀲𑀫𑀅 (samaa), from Sanskrit स॒म॒य (samayá).[2] Doublet of سَمَے (samai).

Pronunciation

Noun

سَماں • (samā̃) m (Hindi spelling समाँ)

  1. time, occasion
    Synonym: وَقْت (vaqt)
  2. weather, season
    Synonym: مَوسَم (mausam)

References

  1. ^ “سماں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “samayá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 762

Further reading

  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “سما”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 775
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “سماں”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 672
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سماں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 384
  • “سماں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
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