جنازہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَازَه (janāza), from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi جنازہ (janāza)ِ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nɑː.zɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: جَ‧نا‧زَہ

Noun

جَنازَہ • (janāza) m (Hindi spelling जनाज़ा)

1. funeral
   • 1960, “خدا نگہبان ہو”, in Shakeel Badayuni (lyrics), Naushad (music), Mughal-e-Azam, performed by Lata Mangeshkar:

     اٹھے جنازہ جو کل ہمارا قسم ہے تم کو نہ دینا کندھا

     uṭhe janāzā jo kal hamārā qasam hai tumko nā denā kāndhā

     If my funeral is tommorow, promise me you won't help lift my bier

     (literally, “If my funeral is tommorow, promise me you won't lend a shoulder”)

2. (literally) bier; the corpse (or coffin in which a corpse is taken away)

Further reading

• “جنازہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جنازه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “جنازه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 390
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جنازه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 482
• John Shakespear (1834) “جنازه”, 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