غنودگی

Urdu

FWOTD – 26 April 2024

Etymology

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Persian غُنُودَن

Classical Persian غُنُودَه (ğunūda)bor.

Urdu غُنُودَہ (ġunūda)

Persian ـگیbor.

Urdu ـگی (-gī)

Urdu غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)

From غُنُودَہ (ġunūda, “drowsy”) +‎ ـگی (-gī, “-ness”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɣʊ.nuː.d̪ə.ɡiː/
• (colloquial, Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [ɣə.nuːd̪.ɡiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: غُ‧نُو‧دَ‧گی

Noun

غُنُودَگی • (ġunūdagī) f (Hindi spelling ग़ुनूदगी)

1. drowsiness, somnolence

   Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh)

   • 1933, Hakeem Mohammad Kabir-ud-din, بُخاروں کا اُصُولِ عِلاج [buxārõ kā usūl-i 'ilāj, The Principle of Treatment of Fevers]‎^[1], Delhi, page 33:

     اُس پر غنودگی طاری رہتی ہے، اور جب وہ سو جاتا ہے، تو وہ نیند میں بَرّانے لگتا ہے۔

     us par ġunūdagī tārī rahtī hai, aur jab vo so jātā hai, to vo nīnd mẽ barrāne lagtā hai.

     Drowsiness overcomes him, and when he falls asleep, he begins to mutter in his slumber.

2. (by extension) light sleep, nap
3. stonedness (ie. stoned from intoxicants)

Declension

Declension of غنودگی
	singular	plural
direct	غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)	غُنُودَگِیاں (ġunūdagiyā̃)
oblique	غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)	غُنُودَگِیوں (ġunūdagiyō̃)
vocative	غُنُودَگی (ġunūdagī)	غُنُودَگِیو (ġunūdagiyō)

Further reading

• “غنودگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “غنودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “غنودگی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]