تھکنا

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Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Urdu verb set
تَھکْنا (thaknā)
تَھکَانا (thakānā)
تَھکْوَانا (thakvānā)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀣𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀤𑀺 (thakkadi), perhaps from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀲𑁆𑀣𑀓𑁆𑀓𑁆 (*sthakk, stop, halt), and further perhaps from Sanskrit स्थग् (sthag, to cover, hide); compare Sanskrit स्थगितगिर् (sthagitagir, with speech impeded), from the same root. Cognate with Nepali थाक्नु (thāknu), Maithili थाकब (thākab) / 𑒟𑒰𑒏𑒥 (thākaba), Punjabi ਥਕਣਾ (thakṇā), ਥੱਕਣਾ (thakkaṇā) / تَھکّݨا (thakkṇā), Sindhi ٿَڪَڻُ / थकणु, Gujarati થાકવું (thākvũ), Marathi थकणे (thakṇe), Bengali থাকা (thaka), Assamese থকা (thoka), থাকা (thaka).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

تَھکْنَا (thaknā) (intransitive, Hindi spelling थकना)

  1. to become tired, exhausted
  2. (transitive) to give up; become tired of
  3. to decline; fall (of a market; business etc.)

Conjugation[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

  • تھکنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • تھکنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تھکنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sthakk”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press