چنانہہ

Saraiki

Alternative forms

• چَنھاں (canhāṉ)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit चंदभागा (caṃdabhāgā), from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā), from चन्द्र (candra) +‎ भाग (bhāga) +‎ -आ (-ā, feminine suffix). Compare Punjabi جَھناں (jhanāṉ) / ਝਨਾਂ (jhanā̃) and Hindustani چَنَاب (canāb) / चनाब (canāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.nãːh/

Proper noun

چَنان٘ہہ (canāṉh) m

1. Chenab (a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India).
   • 1998, حمید الفت ملغانی [Ḥamīd Ulfat Malġāṇī], پاندھی پچھاں واٹیں تکاں [pāndhī pchāṉ vāṭeṉ tkāṉ, pāndhī puchchān̲ vāṭīn̲ takkān̲], Multan: سنجوک پبلی کیشنز [snjok pblī keśnz], →OCLC, page 201:

     1929ء وچ بݨیا ہویا اے مل مظفر ڳڑھ دے نیڑے چنانہہ دے مل وانگوں ہے۔

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Further reading

• “چنانہہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 130
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “candrabhāgā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 252