نوجوان

Persian

Etymology

From نو (now, “new”) +‎ جوان (javân, “young person”).

Noun

نوجوان • (nowjavân) (plural نوجوانان (nowjavânân))

1. adolescent, teenager

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَوجَوَان (nawjawān). By surface analysis, نَو (nau, “new”) +‎ جَوَان (javān, “young person”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɔː.d͡ʒə.ʋɑːn/, [nɔː.d͡ʒo.ɑːn]
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: نَو‧جَ‧وَان

Noun

نَوجَوَان • (naujavān) m (Hindi spelling नौजवान)

1. young; young man; teenager

Declension

Declension of نوجوان
	singular	plural
direct	نَوجَوَان (naujavān)	نَوجَوَان (naujavān)
oblique	نَوجَوَان (naujavān)	نَوجَوَانوں (naujavānō̃)
vocative	نَوجَوَان (naujavān)	نَوجَوَانو (naujavānō)

Adjective

نَوجَوَان • (naujavān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नौजवान)

1. young
2. youthful

Further reading

• “نوجوان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نوجوان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جوان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.