جنتا

See also: جتنا

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Sanskrit जन् (jan)

Sanskrit जनता (janatā)bor.

Urdu جَنْتا (jantā)

Borrowed from Sanskrit जनता (janatā), from जन् (jan), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Compare Spanish gente.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒən.t̪ɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: جَنْ‧تا

Noun

جَنْتا • (jantā) f (Hindi spelling जनता)

1. (uncommon) people, public, common folk – Synonym of عَوَام ('avām)

   Synonyms: عَوام ('avām), قَوم (qaum)

   • 1970, الیکساندر فادیئیف [Alexander Fadeyev], translated by خدیجہ عظیم [Khadija Azeem], قافلہ شہیدوں کا [qāfilah śahīdoṉ kā, The Caravan of Martyrs]‎^[1], volume 1, Moscow, translation of Молодая Гвардия (Molodaya Gvardiya) – The Young Guard (in Russian), page 684:

     میرا اور ان کا گوشت پوست ایک ھے، میں جنتا کا بیٹا ھوں، خادم ھوں !

     merā aur un kā gośt post ek hai, maiṉ jantā kā beṭā hūṉ, xādim hūṉ !

     My flesh and skin and their [flesh and skin] is one, I am a son of the people, a servant!

2. (by extension) group, crowd

   Synonym: بھیڑ (bhīṛ)

Declension

Declension of جنتا

	singular	plural
direct	جَنْتا (jantā)	جَنْتائیں (jantāẽ)
oblique	جَنْتا (jantā)	جَنْتاؤں (jantāõ)
vocative	جَنْتا (jantā)	جَنْتاؤ (jantāo)

Further reading

• “جنتا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جنتا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جنتا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.