دہان

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian دهان‎ (dahān, “mouth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

دہان • (dahān) m (Hindi spelling दहान)

  1. (anatomy) mouth (orifice in the face)
  2. (by extension) mouth, opening

Derived terms
  • دَہانِ آز‎ (dahān-e-āz, “lust”)
  • دَہانِ ضَیغَم‎ (dahān-e-zaiġam, “(constellation) Leo's mouth”)
  • دَہانی‎ (dahānī, “[pretaining to the] mouth”)
  • تُفَن٘گ دَہان‎ (tufang-dahān, “firearm barrel”)

References
  • “دہان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “دہان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “دہان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “دہان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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