चश्मा
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian چشمه (čašma, “spring, source; spectacles”), related to چشم (čašm, “eye”), itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma (“sight”). Related to Sanskrit चक्षु (cakṣu). Other borrowings from Persian are Assamese চছমা (sosoma), Bengali চশমা (cośma), Punjabi ਚਸ਼ਮਾ (caśmā), Gujarati ચશ્માં (caśmā̃), Marathi चष्मा (caṣmā).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
चश्मा • (caśmā) m (Urdu spelling چشمہ)
Declension edit
Declension of चश्मा (masc ā-stem)
Derived terms edit
- काला चश्मा (kālā caśmā)
References edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चश्मा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Marathi edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
चश्मा • (caśmā) m
- Alternative form of चष्मा (caṣmā)
Nepali edit
Alternative forms edit
- चस्मा (casmā)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
चश्मा • (caśmā)
Further reading edit
- “चश्मा”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary][1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
- Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “चश्मा”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar
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