समाँ

Hindi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

समाँ • (samā̃) m (Urdu spelling سماں)

  1. time, weather, period (of time, history)
  2. opportunity
  3. (figurative) environment, view, scenery

Declension

Declension of समाँ (masc ā̃-stem)
singular plural
direct समाँ
samā̃ 		समें
samẽ
oblique समें
samẽ 		समों
samõ
vocative समें
samẽ 		समों
samõ

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
  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “समाँ”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “समाँ”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
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