यमुना

Hindi

Alternative forms
  • जमुना (jamunā)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यमुना (yamunā), from यम (yama, “twin”), as the Yamuna runs parallel with the Ganges.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /jə.mʊ.nɑː/, [jɐ.mʊ.näː]

Proper noun

यमुना • (yamunā) f (Urdu spelling یمنا)

  1. Yamuna, Jumna (a river in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and union territory of Delhi, India)

Declension
Declension of यमुना (sg-only fem ā-stem)
singular
direct यमुना
yamunā
oblique यमुना
yamunā
vocative यमुना
yamunā

References
  1. Monier Williams (1899) “यमुना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 846, 847.
  2. Arthur Berriedale Keith, Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1912) “yamunā”, in Vedic index of names and subjects, volume 2, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. [Published for the Government of India], →OCLC, page 186
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