جنازہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَازَه (janāza), from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nɑːz.ɑ(ː)/

Noun

جَنازَہ • (janāza) m (Hindi spelling जनाज़ा)

1. funeral
2. (literally) bier; the corpse (or coffin in which a corpse is taken away)

Declension

Declension of جنازہ
	singular	plural
direct	جَنازہ (janāzah)	جَنازے (janāze)
oblique	جَنازے (janāze)	جَنازوں (janāzõ)
vocative	جَنازے (janāze)	جَنازو (janāzo)

Further reading

• “جنازہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جنازہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جنازه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.