رانجھا

Urdu

Alternative forms

• رانجھَہ (rānjha)

Etymology

Borrowed from Punjabi ران٘جھا (rāṉjhā) / ਰਾਂਝਾ (rāñjhā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɑːn.d͡ʒʱɑː/

Proper noun

ران٘جھا • (rāñjhā) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling रांझा or राँझा)

1. a surname, Ranjha, from Punjabi, of Ranjha usage
   1. (fiction) Ranjha (the hero of the folk tragedy Heer Ranjha.)

      Coordinate term: ہِیر (hīr)

Noun

ران٘جھا • (rāñjhā) m (Hindi spelling रांझा or राँझा)

1. (figurative, by extension) beloved, lover

Declension

Declension of رانجھا

	singular	plural
direct	ران٘جھا (rāñjhā)	ران٘جھے (rāñjhe)
oblique	ران٘جھے (rāñjhe)	ران٘جھوں (rāñjhõ)
vocative	ران٘جھے (rāñjhe)	ران٘جھو (rāñjho)

Further reading

• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “رانجھا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
• “رانجھا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• “رانجھا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.