سوتن

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *sa-

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *-nih₂

Proto-Indo-European *pótnih₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátniH

Proto-Indo-Iranian *sapátniH

Sanskrit सपत्नी (sapatnī)

Prakrit 𑀲𑀯𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀻 (savattī)

Prakrit 𑀇𑀡 (iṇa)

Prakrit 𑀲𑀯𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀡𑀻 (savattiṇī)

Urdu سَوتَن (sautan)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀲𑀯𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀡𑀻 (savattiṇī). Doublet of سَوت (saut) and سَوکَن (saukan).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɔː.t̪ən/
• Rhymes: -ən
• Hyphenation: سَو‧تَن

Noun

سَوتَن • (sautan) f (Hindi spelling सौतन)

1. co-wife

Declension

Declension of سوتن
	singular	plural
direct	سَوتَن (sautan)	سَوتَنیں (sautanẽ)
oblique	سَوتَن (sautan)	سَوتَنوں (sautanõ)
vocative	سَوتَن (sautan)	سَوتَنو (sautano)

Further reading

• “سوتن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سوتن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 389
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سوتن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 694
• John Shakespear (1834) “سوتن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوتن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 791