ادوان

Urdu

Alternative forms

• اَدْوائِن (advāin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Punjabi ਅਦਵਾਣ / اَدْواݨ (advāṇ), from Sanskrit *अन्तदामनी (antadāmanī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əd̪.ʋɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: اَدْ‧وان

Noun

اَدْوان • (advān) f (Hindi spelling अदवान)

1. bedcord

Declension

Declension of ادوان
	singular	plural
direct	اَدْوان (advān)	اَدْوانیں (advānẽ)
oblique	اَدْوان (advān)	اَدْوانوں (advānõ)
vocative	اَدْوان (advān)	اَدْوانو (advāno)

Further reading

• “ادوان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ادوان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ادوان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*antadāmanī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 16