Urdu

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Etymology

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Urdu verb set
لِکْھنا (likhnā)
لِکھانا (likhānā)
لِکْھوَانا (likhvānā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀮𑀺𑀳𑀤𑀺 (lihadi), from Sanskrit लिखति (likháti). Cognate with Nepali लेख्नु (lekhnu).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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لِکْھنا (likhnā) (Hindi spelling लिखना)

  1. to write
    1. to note down, write down
    2. (transitive) to name
  2. to prescribe (in writing)
  3. (poetic) to destine

Conjugation

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  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

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  • لکھنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • لکھنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لکھنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “likháti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 641