گاؤں

Urdu

Alternative forms

• گان٘و (gā̃o), گان٘وں (gā̃õ) — archaic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi گانوں (gā̃õ) / گاؤں (gāõ) / گانو (gā̃v), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀕𑀸𑀫 (gāma), from Sanskrit ग्राम (grā́ma), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *grā́mas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)gróm-os, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃ː.oː/, /ɡɑː.õː/

Noun

گاؤں • (gāõ) m or m pl (Hindi spelling गाँव)

1. village, hamlet
   • 1909, عبد الرشید, رفیقِ مُسافَران, page 158:

     پنجاب کے ضلع گورداسپور میں ایک گاؤں نارتھ ویسٹرن ریلوے کے سٹیشن بٹالہ سے بفاصلہ ۱۰۔ میل واقع ہے۔

     panjāb ke ẓilaʻ gordāspūr meṉ aik gā'oṉ nārth vesṭarn relve ke sṭeśan baṭāla se bafāṣila 10. mīl vāqiʻa hai.

     A village in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab which lies 10 miles away from the North Western railway station of Batala.

2. hometown

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:گاؤں

Further reading

• “گاؤں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گاؤں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گاؤں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “گاون”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “grā́ma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 235