Urdu edit

Etymology edit

PIE word
*tétḱō

Inherited from Sanskrit तक्षन् (takṣan, carpenter; woodcutter), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *táṭṣā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *táćšā, from Proto-Indo-European *tétḱō (carpenter, woodcutter).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تَکھان (takhānm (Hindi spelling तखान)

  1. carpenter

References edit

  • تکھان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تکھان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “تکھان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • تکھان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.