بھاشن

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit भाषण (bhāṣaṇa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːʂəɳ/

Noun

بھاشَݨ • (bhāśaṇ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਭਾਸ਼ਣ)

1. lecture, speech

   Synonyms: تَقْرِیر (taqrīr), لَیکْچَر (laikcar)

   اَپݨا اَیہہ بھاشَݨ کِسے ہور نُوں دَوِیْں

   apṇā aih bhāśaṇ kise hor nūṉ davīṉ

   Give this lecture to someone else.

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بھاشن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਭਾਸ਼ਣ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit भाषण (bhāṣaṇa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʱɑː.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: بھا‧شَن
• Rhymes: -ən

Noun

بھاشَن • (bhāśan) m (Hindi spelling भाषण)

1. (often ironic) lecture, speech

   Synonyms: تَقْرِیر (taqrīr), خُطْبَہ (xutba)

   اَپْنا یِہ بھاشَن کِسی اَور کو دینا۔

   apnā ye bhāśan kisī aur ko denā.

   Give this lecture to someone else.

Declension

Declension of بھاشن

	singular	plural
direct	بھاشَن (bhāśan)	بھاشَن (bhāśan)
oblique	بھاشَن (bhāśan)	بھاشَنوں (bhāśanõ)
vocative	بھاشَن (bhāśan)	بھاشَنو (bhāśano)

Further reading

• “بھاشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بھاشن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بهاشن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 179