ناں

Pahari-Potwari

Etymology

Inherited from Old Punjabi ناو (nāv /⁠nāṃu⁠/), نامُ (nāmu), from Apabhramsa णाम (ṇāma), from Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀫 (ṇāma), from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man). Akin to Punjabi ناں (nāṉ).

Noun

ناں (nāṉ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਾਂ)

1. name

Further reading

• شیراز ،طاہِر [Tahir, Shiraz] (2016) “نآں”, in شِیرازُ الْلُّغات: پوٹھوہارِی لُغَت [Pothohari Dictionary] (in Urdu), Peshawar: گَنْدھارا ہِنْدْکو اَکَیڈَمِی (gandhārā hindko akaiḍamī) [Gandhara Hindko Academy], →ISBN, page 556, column 2.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nā́man”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 406