جہنم

See also: جهنم

Urdu

Etymology

  • Etymology tree
    Ge'ez ገሀነም (gähänäm)influ.
    Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam)bor.
    Classical Persian جَهَنَّم (jahannam)bor.
    Urdu جَہَنَّم (jahannam)

    Borrowed from Classical Persian جَهَنَّم (jahannam), borrowed from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam), borrowed from Aramaic גֵּיהִנָּם + Ge'ez ገሀነም (gähänäm). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi جہنم (jhnm /⁠jahannam⁠/).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    جَہَنَّم • (jahannam) m (Hindi spelling जहन्नम)

    1. (Islam) hell
      Synonym: دوزَخ (dozax)

    Declension

    Declension of جہنم
    singular plural
    direct جَہَنَّم (jahannam) جَہَنَّم (jahannam)
    oblique جَہَنَّم (jahannam) جَہَنَّموں (jahannamõ)
    vocative جَہَنَّم (jahannam) جَہَنَّمو (jahannamo)

    References

    1. ^ “جہنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

    Further reading

    • “جہنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “جہنم”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
    • The template Template:R:Fallon does not use the parameter(s): 
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    • John Shakespear (1834), “جـﮩنم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 665
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