آدھنک

Urdu

Alternative forms

• آدھُونِک (ādhūnik)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आधुनिक (ādhunika).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.d̪ʱʊ.nɪk/

Adjective

آدھُنِک • (ādhunik) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling आधुनिक) (chiefly India or rare)

1. modern, contemporary, recent

   Synonyms: جَدِید (jadīd), نَئے زَمانے (nae zamāne)

Derived terms

• آدُھنِکْتَا (ādhuniktā)

Further reading

• Platts, John T. (1884), “آدهنك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 35