آنچل

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Sanskrit अञ्चल (añcala)

Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀘𑀮 (aṃcala)

Urdu آنچل

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀘𑀮 (aṃcala), from Sanskrit अञ्चल (añcala).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ː.t͡ʃəl/
• Rhymes: -əl
• Hyphenation: آ‧ن٘چَل

Noun

آن٘چَل • (ā̃cal) m (Hindi spelling आँचल)

1. hem, border (of a garment)
2. pallu, aanchal, the end of a sari

   Synonym: پَلُّو (pallū)

3. (anatomy, figurative) breast, teat

Declension

Declension of آنچل

	singular	plural
direct	آن٘چَل (ā̃cal)	آن٘چَل (ā̃cal)
oblique	آن٘چَل (ā̃cal)	آن٘چَلوں (ā̃calõ)
vocative	آن٘چَل (ā̃cal)	آن٘چَلو (ā̃calo)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آنچل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 151
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آنچل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 89
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آنچل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 18
• “آنچل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “آنچل”, 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 149
• “آنچل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.