Punjabi edit

Punjabi verb set
لَن٘گْھݨا (laṉghṇā)
لَن٘گْھاݨا (laṉghāṇā)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit लङ्घयति (laṅghayati).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

لَن٘گْھݨا (laṉghṇā) (intransitive, Gurmukhi spelling ਲੰਘਣਾ)

  1. to pass
    1. (transitive) to pass by; go by
      • 2007, فوزیہ رفیق – Fauziyah Rafīq, سکینہ – Sakīnah, Lahore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92:
        کہ جے میں اوہدی بھین ہوندی تے میری حیاتی کِیویں لنگھدی۔
        kih je maiṉ ohdī bhaiṇ hondī te merī ḥayātī kīveṉ laṉghdī.
        that if I [ever] was her sister then how my life would turn out to be.
        (literally, “that if I was her sister then how my life would pass by.”)
    2. (transitive) to go through
  2. to cross
    1. (transitive) to cross over
  3. to enter

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “لنگھن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • لنگھنا”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “laṅghayati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 631