محنت

See also: مخنث and مجنب

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mih.nat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ɦ.nät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ɦ.nät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪ.nät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mi.nät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [meɦ.næt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [meɦ.nät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	mihnat
Dari reading?	mehnat
Iranian reading?	mehnat
Tajik reading?	mehnat

Noun

مِحْنَت • (mehnat)

1. tribulation, toil, hardship

Descendants

• → Bengali: মেহনত (mehnot)
• → Gujarati: મહેનત (mahenat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मेहनत (mehnat)

  Urdu: محنت (mehnat)

• → Marathi: मेहनत (mehnat)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਿਹਨਤ (mihnat)

  Shahmukhi script: مِحْنَت (miḥnat)

• → Sindhi: مِحْنَتَ (mihnata)

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian محنت (mihnat), from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

Noun

مِحْنَتَ • (mihnata) f

1. labor

Derived terms

• محنتائتو
• محنتاٹو
• محنتی

 

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “مِحْنَتَ , مَحِنَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مِحْنَت (mihnat), from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /meːɦ.nət̪/, /mɪɦ.nət̪/, [mɛʱ.nət̪]

Noun

محنت • (mehnat or mihnat) f (Hindi spelling मेहनत or मिहनत)

1. effort
2. toil

Declension

Declension of محنت
	singular	plural
direct	محنت (mehnat)	محنتیں (mehnatẽ)
oblique	محنت (mehnat)	محنتوں (mehnatõ)
vocative	محنت (mehnat)	محنتو (mehnato)

Related terms

• محنتی (mehnatī, mihnatī)
• محنت کرنا (mehnat karnā, mihnat karnā)
• محنت لگنا (mehnat lagnā, mihnat lagnā)