پتنگ

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit पतङ्ग (pataṅga, “the flier, flying insect e.g. moth”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.t̪əŋɡ/
• Rhymes: -əŋɡ
• Hyphenation: پَ‧تنْگ

Noun

پَتَنْگ • (pataṅg) m (Hindi spelling पतंग)

1. kite

Declension

Declension of پتنگ
	singular	plural
direct	پَتَنْگ (pataṅg)	پَتَنْگ (pataṅg)
oblique	پَتَنْگ (pataṅg)	پَتَنْگوں (pataṅgõ)
vocative	پَتَنْگ (pataṅg)	پَتَنْگو (pataṅgo)

Further reading

• “پتنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پتنگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پتنگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پتنگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.