जहन्नुम

• जहन्नम (jahannam)

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَهَنَّم (jahannam), from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam, “Jahannam”), from Hebrew גהינום (“Gehinnom”), from גַּיא בֶּן הִנֹּם (Ge ben Hinnom, “Valley of Hinnom”).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ɦən.nʊm/, [d͡ʒɛ.ɦɛ̃n.nʊ̃m]

जहन्नुम • (jahannum) m (Urdu spelling جہنم)

1. (chiefly Islam) hell, Gehenna, Jahannam

   Synonyms: (Hinduism) नरक (narak), (Zoroastrianism and Islam) दोज़ख़ (dozax)

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