जुवान

Inherited from Prakrit जुवाण (juvāṇa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yúh₁ō. See the Prakrit entry for more. Doublet of जवान (javān) and युवा (yuvā).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊ.ʋɑːn/, [d͡ʒʊ.ʋä̃ːn]

जुवान • (juvān) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling جُوان)

1. young, youthful
2. in the prime of manhood or womanhood; vigorous; blooming

जुवान • (juvān) m (Urdu spelling جُوان)

1. a young man

   Synonyms: युवक (yuvak), युवा (yuvā), तरुण (taruṇ), जवान (javān)

2. a soldier, warrior

   Synonyms: फ़ौजी (faujī), सैनिक (sainik), जवान (javān), सैन्य (sainya), योद्धा (yoddhā)

• All senses are dated, or possibly archaic. The term is no longer in common use, but is sometimes used by people from olden times. Replaced mostly by:

  Persian-derived जवान (javān) (in colloquial Hindi)

  Tatsamas युवा (yuvā) and युवक (yuvak) (in formal and literary Hindi)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “जुवान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884), “जुवान”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “juvān”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press