چاہنا

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀘𑀸𑀳𑀤𑀺 (cāhadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀘𑀸𑀳𑁆 (*cāh).

Chatterji tied this to Ashokan Prakrit 𑀘𑀖𑀢𑀺 (caghati, to strive towards), ultimately from Sanskrit चक्ष् (cakṣ, to see);[1] modern scholarship has instead tied the Ashokan term to शक् (śak, to be able to).[2] The Ashokan is probably not the source of the NIA terms; see there for more.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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چاہنا (cāhnā) (Hindi spelling चाहना)

  1. (with verbs) to want
  2. (with subordinate clauses) to wish
  3. (with people) to love

Conjugation

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

References

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  1. ^ Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language[1], volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 878
  2. ^ George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, editors (2003), The Indo-Aryan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 197