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यमुना

Hindi edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यमुना (yamunā), from यम (yama, “twin”), as the Yamuna runs parallel with the Ganges.[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /jə.mʊ.nɑː/, [jɐ.mʊ.näː]

Proper noun edit

यमुना • (yamunā) f (Urdu spelling یمنا)

  1. Yamuna, Jumna (a river in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and union territory of Delhi, India)

Declension edit

Declension of यमुना (sg-only fem ā-stem)
singular
direct यमुना
yamunā
oblique यमुना
yamunā
vocative यमुना
yamunā

References edit

  1. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “यमुना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 846, 847.
  2. ^ Arthur Berriedale Keith, Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1912) “yamunā”, in Vedic index of names and subjects, volume 2, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. [Published for the Government of India], →OCLC, page 186
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