جھناں

Punjabi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit चंदभागा (caṃdabhāgā), from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā), from चन्द्र (candra) +‎ भाग (bhāga) +‎ -आ (-ā, feminine suffix). Compare Saraiki چَنان٘ہہ‎ (canāṉh) and Hindustani چَنَاب‎ / चनाब (canāb).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

جَھناں • (jhanāṉ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਝਨਾਂ or ਚਨਾਬ)

  1. Chenab (a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India).
    Synonym: چَناب‎ (canāb)
    • a. 1973, فقیر محمّد فقیر - Faqir Muhammad Faqir, میرا دیس امیر - merā des amīr‎, quoted in لعلاں دی پنڈ - Laʻlān dī pinḍ, Lahore: Aziz Depot, archived from the original on 29 March 2023, page 375:
      ‏وگے لہراں لیندا راوی ٹھاٹھاں مارے جھناں‎‎
      vagge lahrāṉ laindā rāvī ṭhāṭhāṉ māre jhanāṉ
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 2001, شبنم اسحاق – Shabnam Isḥāq, سوہنی مہینوال – Sohṇī Mahīnvāl, Lahore: حیدر پبلیکیشنز – Haider Publications, →OCLC, page 135:
      ‏تے جھناں دا پانی ایڈا چڑھیا ہوندا اے کہ پاراوار کجھ نظر نہیں آؤندا‎
      te jhanāṉ dā pāṇī aeḍā caṛhiya hondā ae kih pārāvār kujh nahīṉ naz̤ar ā'undā
      And the Chenab waters rise so much, that nothing beyond the limit can be visible
    • 2005, میر تنہا یوسفی – Mīr Tanhā Yūsufī, کالا چانن – Kālā cānaṇ, Lahore: Institute of Punjabi Language and Culture, →OCLC, page 25:
      ‏تاریخ دے کسے موڑ اُتے راوی تے جھناں دے وِچکار لے علاقے وِچ‎
      tārīx de kise moṛ utte rāvī te jhanāṉ de vickār le ʻilāqe vicc
      At some point in history, the areas between Ravi and Chenab

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “جھناں‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • “جھناں‎”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “candrabhāgā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 252
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