سامنا

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀁𑀫𑀼𑀳 (saṃmuha), from Sanskrit सम्मुख (sam-mukhá, “facing”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɑːm.nɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: سام‧نا

Noun

سامْنا • (sāmnā) m (Hindi spelling सामना)

1. front; facade
2. encounter; confrontation
3. opposition (ie. to oppose)

Declension

Declension of سامنا
	singular	plural
direct	سامْنا (sāmnā)	سامْنے (sāmne)
oblique	سامْنے (sāmne)	سامْنوں (sāmnõ)
vocative	سامْنے (sāmne)	سامْنو (sāmno)

Further reading

• “سامنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سامنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سامنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سامنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سامنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سامنا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “saṁmukhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press