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جھکنا

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Cognate with Nepali झुक्नु (jhuknu), Punjabi ਝੁਕਣਾ (jhukṇā) / جھُکݨا (jhukṇā), Marathi झुकणे (jhukṇe).

Verb

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جُھکْنا (jhuknā) (Hindi spelling झुकना)

  1. to bend
  2. to stoop
  3. to recline
  4. to go down

Conjugation

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

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  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جهکنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*jhukkati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press