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آشنا

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Khalaj

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Adjective

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آشنا (âşnâ)

  1. Arabic spelling of âşnâ (familiar)

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾšnwʾk' /⁠āšnāg⁠/, known), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (to know). Note also Old Persian [script needed] (ašnaiy, near). Possibly akin to Old Armenian Աշնակ (Ašnak, a male given name). Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, to know, to be acquainted with).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? āšnā, āšinā
Dari reading? āšnā, āšinā
Iranian reading? âšnâ, âšenâ
Tajik reading? ošno
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Adjective

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Dari آشنا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ошно

آشنا (âšnâ or âšenâ)

  1. acquainted
  2. familiar, accustomed

Derived terms

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Noun

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آشنا (âšnâ or âšenâ) (plural آشنایان (âšnâyân), or آشناها)

  1. acquaintance, friend

Descendants

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  • Azerbaijani: aşna
  • Bashkir: әшнә (əşnə)
  • Gujarati: આશના (āśanā)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: आशना (āśnā)
    Urdu: آشْنا (āśnā)
  • Khalaj: âşnâ
  • Tatar: әшнә (äşnä)

References

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  • Herzenberg, L. G. (2014) “Studies in Persian Etymology II”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana[1], volume 10, number 1, published by P. A. Kocharov and A. V. Shatskov, page 37 of 19–48
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 34(1), page 8
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āšnāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 13

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian آشْنَا (āšnā).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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آشْنا (āśnām (Hindi spelling आशना)

  1. friend; acquaintance
  2. lover, paramour

Declension

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Declension of آشنا
singular plural
direct آشْنا (āśnā) آشْنے (āśne)
oblique آشْنے (āśne) آشْنوں (āśnõ)
vocative آشْنے (āśne) آشْنو (āśno)

Further reading

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  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “آشنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 95
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “آشنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 58
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آشنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 12
  • آشنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “آشنا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 100
  • آشنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Ushojo

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Adjective

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اَشنا (ašnā)

  1. familiar