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ادھلنا

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Punjabi

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Punjabi verb set
اُدَّھلݨا (uddahlṇā)
اُدھالݨا (udhālṇā)

Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit *उद्ध्वलति (uddhvalati). Cognate with Saraiki اُدَّھلَݨ (uddahlaṇ, to elope), Urdu اُدَھلْنا (udhalnā, to be intoxicated, sinful) / Hindi उधलना (udhalnā), Gujarati ઉધળવું (udhaḷvũ) and Marathi उधळणे (udhaḷṇe).

Verb

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اُدَّھلݨا or اُدَّھࣇنا (uddhalṇā or uddhaḷnā) (intransitive, Gurmukhi spelling ਉੱਧਲ਼ਨਾ)

  1. (of a married woman) to elope with another man
    • 1999, Mir Tanha Yousafi, تریہ [Treh] (fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
      تاں نال ایہ وی دسدا سی پئی ادھل گئی زنانی دا کوئی ٹکانا نہیں ہوندا۔
      tāṉ nāl eh vī dassdā sī pa'ī uddhal ga'ī zanānī dā koī ṭikāṇā nahīṉ hondā.
      And would also say [that] an eloped woman has no [permanent] dwelling.
  2. to wander about futilely, wickedly
  3. to be lascivious, lewd

Further reading

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  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “اُدھلن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • ਉੱਧਲ਼ਨਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “uddhvalati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 95

Urdu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit *उद्ध्वलति (uddhvalati).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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اُدَھلْنا (udhalnā) (intransitive, Hindi spelling उथलना) (rare)

  1. to be intoxicated
  2. to be impure
  3. (of a woman) to be spoiled, defiled
  4. (of a woman) to elope, be seduced, lustful

Conjugation

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  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

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  • ادھلنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ادھلنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ادهلنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 35