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پھلنا

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit फलति (phalati) or from پھل (phal). Cognate with Punjabi ਫਲਣਾ (phalṇā) / پَھلݨا (phalṇā), Sindhi ڦَلَڻُ / फलणु, Gujarati ફળવું (phaḷvũ), Nepali फल्नु (phalnu), Marathi फळणे (phaḷṇe), Bengali ফলা (phola).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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پَھلْنَا (phalnā) (Hindi spelling फलना)

  1. to bear fruit
  2. to have heirs
  3. to prove successful or advantageous
  4. to break out as blisters or pimples

Conjugation

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

References

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  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پهلنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “phálati1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press