غنودگی
Urdu
FWOTD – 26 April 2024
Etymology
From غُنُودَہ (ġunūda, “drowsy”) + ـگی (-gī, “-ness”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɣʊ.nuː.d̪ə.ɡiː/
- (colloquial, Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [ɣə.nuːd̪.ɡiː]
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: غُ‧نُو‧دَ‧گی
Noun
غُنُودَگی • (ġunūdagī) f (Hindi spelling ग़ुनूदगी)
- drowsiness
- Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh)
- 1933, Hakeem Mohammad Kabir-ud-din, بُخاروں کا اُصُولِ عِلاج [buxārõ kā usūl-i 'ilāj, The Principle of Treatment of Fevers], Delhi, page 33:
- اُس پر غنودگی طاری رہتی ہے، اور جب وہ سو جاتا ہے، تو وہ نیند میں بَرّانے لگتا ہے۔
- us par ġunūdagī tārī rahtī hai, aur jab vo so jātā hai, to vo nīnd mẽ barrāne lagtā hai.
- Drowsiness overcomes him, and when he falls asleep, he begins to mutter in his slumber.
- (by extension) light sleep, nap
- stonedness (ie. stoned from intoxicants)
Declension
| Declension of غنودگی | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) | غُنُودَگیاں (ġunūdagiyā̃) |
| oblique | غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) | غُنُودَگیوں (ġunūdagiyō̃) |
| vocative | غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī) | غُنُودَگیو (ġunūdagiyō) |
Further reading
- “غنودگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “غنودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “غنودگی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “غنودگي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 863
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