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), Oriya 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) 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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
  • 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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