آشنا

Gawar-Bati

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu آشنا (āśnā), from Persian آشنا.

Noun

آشنا (āšnā)

1. friend; acquaintance

Khalaj

Adjective

آشنا (âşnâ)

1. Arabic spelling of âşnâ (“familiar”)

Persian

Etymology

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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːʃ.ˈnaː/, /ʔaː.ʃi.ˈnaː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːʃ.nɑː], [ʔɑː.ʃɪ.nɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːʃ.nɑː], [ʔɑː.ʃɪ.nɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːʃ.nɑː], [ʔɑː.ʃɪ.nɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːʃ.nɔː], [ʔɔː.ʃi.nɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːʃ.nɒː], [ʔɒː.ʃe.nɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔʃ.nɔ]

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

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Adjective

Dari	آشنا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ошно

آشنا • (âšnâ or âšenâ)

1. acquainted
2. familiar, accustomed

Derived terms

• آشنا شدن (âšnâ šodan, “to meet”)
• آشنا کردن (âšnâ kardan)
• آشنایی (âšnâyî)

Noun

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

1. acquaintance, friend
   • late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “زاهد خلوت‌نشین دوش به میخانه شد”, in دیوان حافظ [Divān of Ḥāfeẓ]:

     مغبچه‌ای می‌گذشت راهزن دین و دل، در پی آن آشنا از همه بیگانه شد.

     moġ-bačče-ye mi-gozašt râhzan-e din o del, dar pey-e ân âšnâ az hame bigâne šod.

     A Magian child was passing by, [that] bandit of faith and hearts; to follow that friendly one, he stopped knowing anyone else.

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: aşna
• → Bashkir: әшнә (əşnə)
• → Chagatai: آشنا (ʾāšnā)
  • Uyghur: ئاشنا (ashna)
  • Uzbek: oshna
• → Gujarati: આશના (āśanā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आशना (āśnā)

  Urdu: آشْنا (āśnā)

• → Khalaj: âşnâ
• → Ottoman Turkish: آشنا (aşina)
  • Turkish: aşina
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਸ਼ਨਾ (āśanā)

  Shahmukhi script: آشْنا (āśnā)

• → Tatar: әшнә (äşnä)
• → Turkmen: aşna

References

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آشْنَا (āšnā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ.nɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: آشْ‧نا

Noun

آشْنا • (āśnā) m (Hindi spelling आशना)

1. friend; acquaintance
2. lover, paramour

Declension

Declension of آشنا

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

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (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, 2026.
• 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, 3^rd 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

Adjective

اَشنا (ašnā)

1. familiar