سونا

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Urdu

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑁆𑀡 (suṇṇa), from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, empty). Compare Punjabi ਸੁੰਨ (sunn), Nepali सुन् (sun), Gujarati સૂનું (sūnũ), Marathi सुना (sunā).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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سُونا (sūnām (Hindi spelling सूना)

  1. empty
  2. hollow
  3. unoccupied
  4. unadorned
Declension
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Declension of سونا
masculine feminine
singular plural singular plural
direct سُونا (sūnā) سُونے (sūne) سُونی (sūnī) سُونی (sūnī)
indirect سُونے (sūne) سُونے (sūne) سُونی (sūnī) سُونی (sūnī)

Noun

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سُونا (sūnām (Hindi spelling सूना)

  1. void
  2. emptiness

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑁄𑀡𑀅𑀁 (soṇaaṃ), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa, golden). Compare Marathi सोने (sone), ਸੋਨਾ (sonā), Nepali सुन (suna), Gujarati સોનું (sonũ), Odia ସୁନା (sunā), Bengali সোনা (śōna), Assamese সোণ (xün)/সণা (xona).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سونا (sonām (Hindi spelling सोना)

  1. gold
Declension
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    Declension of سونا
singular plural
direct سونا (sonā) سونے (sone)
oblique سونے (sone) سونوں (sonõ)
vocative سونے (sone) سونو (sono)
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit/Vedic Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápati, from Proto-Indo-European *swépeti. Cognate with Nepali सुत्नु (sutnu).

Verb

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سونا (sonā) (Hindi spelling सोना)

  1. to sleep
    میں رات کو دس بجے سوتا ہوں۔
    ma͠i rāt ko das baje sotā hū̃
    I sleep at ten o'clock at night.
  2. to fall asleep
    میرا بھائی پڑھتے پڑھتے سو گیا۔
    mēra bhāī paṛhte-paṛhte so gayā
    My brother fell asleep while reading.
  3. to repose
  4. to die
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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  • سونا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • سونا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سونا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سونا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “سونا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سونا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Urdu سونا (sōnā).

Noun

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سونا (sōnā)

  1. precious metal
  2. gold
    Synonym: زَرٔ (zarè)