ज़माना
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Hindi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- जमाना (jamānā) (nuqtaless)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian زمانه (zamāna), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ẕmʾnk' /zamānag/). Compare Punjabi ਜ਼ਮਾਨਾ (zamānā) / زَمانہ (zamānh), Gujarati જમાનો (jamāno), Marathi जमाना (jamānā), Bengali জমানা (jomana).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ज़माना • (zamānā) m (Urdu spelling زَمَانَہ)
- age, era
- Synonym: युग (yug)
- period
- Synonym: पीढ़ी (pīṛhī)
- पुराने ज़माने में हम काम बिजली के बिना करते थे।
- purāne zamāne mẽ ham kām bijlī ke binā karte the.
- In the olden days, we worked without electricity.
Declension
[edit]Declension of ज़माना (masc ā-stem)
References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “zamānā”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press