چنانہہ

Saraiki

Alternative forms

• چَنھاں (canhāṉ)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit चंदभागा (caṃdabhāgā), from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā), from चन्द्र (candra) +‎ भाग (bhāga) +‎ -आ (-ā, feminine suffix). Compare Punjabi جَھناں (jhanāṉ) / ਝਨਾਂ (jhanā̃) and Hindustani چَنَاب (canāb) / चनाब (canāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.nãːh/

Proper noun

چَنان٘ہہ (canāṉh) m

1. Chenab (a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India).
   • 1998, حمید الفت ملغانی [Ḥamīd Ulfat Malġāṇī], پاندھی پچھاں واٹیں تکاں [pāndhī pchāṉ vāṭeṉ tkāṉ, pāndhī puchchān̲ vāṭīn̲ takkān̲], Multan: سنجوک پبلی کیشنز [snjok pblī keśnz], →OCLC, page 201:

     1929ء وچ بݨیا ہویا اے مل مظفر ڳڑھ دے نیڑے چنانہہ دے مل وانگوں ہے۔

     1929ء vc bṇeyā hoeyā اe ml mz̤fr g̈ṛh de neṛe cnānh de ml vāngoṉ he.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “چنانہہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 130
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “candrabhāgā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 252