See also: تھکان

Urdu

edit

Etymology

edit
Urdu verb set
تَھکْنا (thaknā)
تَھکَانا (thakānā)
تَھکْوَانا (thakvānā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀣𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀤𑀺 (thakkadi), perhaps from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀲𑁆𑀣𑀓𑁆𑀓𑁆 (*sthakk, stop, halt), and further perhaps from Sanskrit स्थग् (sthag, to cover, hide); compare Sanskrit स्थगितगिर् (sthagitagir, with speech impeded), from the same root. Cognate with Nepali थाक्नु (thāknu), Maithili थाकब (thākab) / 𑒟𑒰𑒏𑒥 (thākaba), Punjabi ਥਕਣਾ (thakṇā), ਥੱਕਣਾ (thakkaṇā) / تَھکّݨا (thakkṇā), Sindhi ٿَڪَڻُ / थकणु, Gujarati થાકવું (thākvũ), Marathi थकणे (thakṇe), Bengali থাকা (thaka), Assamese থকা (thoka), থাকা (thaka).

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

تَھکْنَا (thaknā) (intransitive, Hindi spelling थकना)

  1. to become tired, exhausted
  2. (transitive) to give up; become tired of
  3. to decline; fall (of a market; business etc.)

Conjugation

edit
  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

edit
  • تھکنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • تھکنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تھکنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sthakk”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press