چندن

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana). Doublet of صَنْدَل (sandal).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃən.d̪ən/
• Rhymes: -ən
• Hyphenation: چَنْ‧دَن

Noun

چَنْدَن • (candan) m (Hindi spelling चंदन)

1. sandalwood (the aromatic heartwood of sandalwood trees)
2. sandalwood (any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum)

Declension

Declension of چندن
	singular	plural
direct	چَنْدَن (candan)	چَنْدَن (candan)
oblique	چَنْدَن (candan)	چَنْدَنوں (candanō̃)
vocative	چَنْدَن (candan)	چَنْدَنو (candanō)

Further reading

• “چندن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چندن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چندن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “چندن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “چندن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “چندن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.