سونہہ

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit शपथ (śapátha). Cognate with Sindhi سَنهُن (sãhũ), Urdu سوں (sõ), Hindi सौंह (sa͠uh) and Konkani सवो (savo).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: sɔ̄̃́ IPA^(key): /sɔ̃ː˦/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃ː˦

Noun

سَون٘ہہ • (sauṉh) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੌਂਹ)

1. oath; swear

   Synonym: قَسَم (qasam)

   • 1971, Afzal Ahsan, دیوا تے دریا [The Lamp and the River], Lahore, →OCLC, page 45:

     "ہور وڈی سونہہ کھا ایہہ کوئی سونہہ اے۔"

     "hor vaḍḍī sauṉh khā eh koī sauṉh e."

     "Swear by something greater, what kind of oath is that?"

2. (by extension):
   1. pledge

      Synonym: حَلَف (ḥalaf)

   2. promise; affirmation; word

      Synonyms: وَعْدَہ (vaʻdah), قَرار (qarār)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سَونہہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਸੌਂਹ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śapátha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 712