چنانہہ

Saraiki

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit चंदभागा (caṃdabhāgā), from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā), from चन्द्र (candra) +‎ भाग (bhāga) +‎ -आ (-ā, feminine suffix). Compare Punjabi جَھناں‎ (jhanāṉ) / ਝਨਾਂ (jhanā̃) and Hindustani چَنَاب‎ / चनाब (canāb).

Proper noun

چَنان٘ہہ (canāṉh) m

  1. Chenab (a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India).
    • 1998, حمید الفت ملغانی – Ḥamīd Ulfat Malġāṇī, پاندھی پچھاں واٹیں تکاں – pāndhī puchchān̲ vāṭīn̲ takkān̲, Multan: سنجوک پبلی کیشنز, →OCLC, page 201:
      ‏1929ء وچ بݨیا ہویا اے مل مظفر ڳڑھ دے نیڑے چنانہہ دے مل وانگوں ہے۔‎‎
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Further reading
  • “چنانہہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language (in English), United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 130
  • 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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