दीवाना
Hindi edit
Alternative forms edit
- दिवाना (divānā)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian دیوانه (dēwāna), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyw'nk' /dēwānag/, “demonic; crazy, insane”). Compare Bengali দেওয়ানা (deōẇana), Gujarati દીવાનું (dīvānũ), Marathi दिवाणे (divāṇe), Punjabi ਦਿਵਾਨਾ (divānā), ਦੀਵਾਨਾ (dīvānā).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
दीवाना • (dīvānā) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ)
- crazy, insane, mad
- Synonym: पागल (pāgal)
- मेरा दिल तेरे लिए दीवाना हो गया है।
- merā dil tere lie dīvānā ho gayā hai.
- My heart is crazy about you.
- 1997, Sonu Nigam, "Yeh Dil Deewana" in Pardes :
- यह दिल दीवाना
दीवाना है यह दिल- yah dil dīvānā
dīvānā hai yah dil - This heart is crazy
mad is this heart
- yah dil dīvānā
- यह दिल दीवाना
Noun edit
दीवाना • (dīvānā) m (Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ)
Declension edit
Declension of दीवाना (masc ā-stem)
References edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दीवाना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press