जहन्नुम

Hindi edit

Alternative forms edit

जहन्नम (jahannam)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian (jahannam), from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam), from Hebrew גהינום (Gehennam), from גַּיא בֶּן הִנֹּם (Ge ben Hinnom, “Valley of Hinnom”).

Pronunciation edit

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ɦən.nʊm/, [d͡ʒɛ.ɦɛ̃n.nʊ̃m]

Noun edit

जहन्नुम • (jahannum) m (Urdu spelling جہنم)

(chiefly Islam) hell, Gehenna, Jahannam
Synonyms: (Hinduism) नरक (narak), (Zoroastrianism and Islam) दोज़ख़ (dozax)

Declension edit

Declension of जहन्नुम (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुम jahannum
oblique	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुमों jahannumõ
vocative	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुमो jahannumo

References edit

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “जहन्नुम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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