चश्मा

Hindi

Etymology

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

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəʃ.mɑː/, [t͡ʃɐʃ.mäː]

Noun

चश्मा • (caśmā) m (Urdu spelling چشمہ)

1. spectacles, glasses

   Synonym: ऐनक (ainak)

2. source, spring, fountain

Declension

Declension of चश्मा (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	चश्मा caśmā	चश्मे caśme
oblique	चश्मे caśme	चश्मों caśmõ
vocative	चश्मे caśme	चश्मो caśmo

Derived terms

• काला चश्मा (kālā caśmā)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चश्मा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Marathi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕəɕ.ma/

Noun

चश्मा • (caśmā) m

1. Alternative form of चष्मा (caṣmā)

Nepali

Alternative forms

• चस्मा (casmā)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʌsmä]
• Phonetic Devanagari: चस्मा

Noun

चश्मा • (caśmā)

1. spectacles, glasses

Further reading

• “चश्मा”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś)‎^[1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “चश्मा”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar