चश्मा
Appearance
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian چشمه (čašma, “spring, source; spectacles”), related to چشم (čašm, “eye”), itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma (“sight”). Related to Sanskrit चक्षु (cakṣu). Other borrowings from Persian are Assamese চছমা (sosoma), Bengali চশমা (cośma), Punjabi ਚਸ਼ਮਾ (caśmā), Gujarati ચશ્માં (caśmā̃), Marathi चष्मा (caṣmā).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]चश्मा • (caśmā) m (Urdu spelling چشمہ)
Declension
[edit]Declension of चश्मा (masc ā-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]- काला चश्मा (kālā caśmā)
References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चश्मा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Marathi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]चश्मा • (caśmā) m
- Alternative form of चष्मा (caṣmā)
Nepali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- चस्मा (casmā)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]चश्मा • (caśmā)
Further reading
[edit]- “चश्मा”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary][1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
- Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “चश्मा”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar
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