سدھارنا

Urdu

Etymology

Derived from سدھار (sudhār), which is from Sanskrit *शुद्धकार (śuddhakāra, the act of purifying or removing errors),[1] from शुद्ध (śuddha) + कार (kāra) (compare Sanskrit शुद्धीकरोति (śuddhīkaroti), from शुद्धीकृ (śuddhīkṛ, to purify, to remove errors, root), from शुद्ध (śuddha, adjective) + ईकृ (īkṛ, root form)). Cognate with Punjabi ਸੁਧਾਰਨਾ (sudhārnā) / سُدھارنا (sudhārnā), Nepali सुधार्नु (sudhārnu), Bengali শুধরানো (sudhranô), Odia ସୁଧାରିବା (sudhariba), Gujarati સુધારવું (sudhārvũ), Marathi सुधारणे (sudhārṇe), Assamese শুধৰোৱা (xudhorüa).

Pronunciation

Verb

سُدھارْنا • (sudhārnā) (Hindi spelling सुधारना)

  1. to improve, better
  2. to rectify, correct
  3. to fix

Conjugation

  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

References

  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*śuddhakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

  • سدھارنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سدهارنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “सुधारना”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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