جھناں

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• چَنھاں (canhāṉ), چَنہاں (canhāṉ)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit चंदभागा (caṃdabhāgā), from Sanskrit चन्द्रभागा (candrabhāgā), from चन्द्र (candra) +‎ भाग (bhāga) +‎ -आ (-ā, feminine suffix). Compare Saraiki چَنان٘ہہ (canāṉh) and Hindustani چَنَاب (canāb) / चनाब (canāb).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: cànā̃́ IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃə˨.nä̃ː˦/
• Rhymes: -ä̃ː˦

Proper noun

جَھناں • (jhanāṉ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਝਨਾਂ or ਚਨਾਬ)

1. Chenab (a river in Punjab, Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the state of Himachal Pradesh in India).

   Synonym: چَناب (canāb)

   • a. 1973, فقیر محمّد فقیر [fqer mḥmmd fqer, Faqir Muhammad Faqir], میرا دیس امیر [merā des amīr]‎^[1], quoted in لعلاں دی پنڈ [Laʻlān dī pinḍ], Lahore: Aziz Depot, archived from the original on 29 March 2023, page 375:

     وگے لہراں لیندا راوی ٹھاٹھاں مارے جھناں

     vagge lahrāṉ laindā rāvī ṭhāṭhāṉ māre jhanāṉ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2001, شبنم اسحاق [Shabnam Isḥāq], سوہنی مہینوال [Sohṇī Mahīnvāl], Lahore: حیدر پبلیکیشنز [ḥedr pblekīśnz, Haider Publications], →OCLC, page 135:

     تے جھناں دا پانی ایڈا چڑھیا ہوندا اے کہ پاراوار کجھ نظر نہیں آؤندا

     te jhanāṉ dā pāṇī aeḍā caṛhiya hondā ae kih pārāvār kujh nahīṉ naz̤ar ā'undā

     And the Chenab waters rise so much, that nothing beyond the limit can be visible

   • 2005, میر تنہا یوسفی [Mīr Tanhā Yūsufī], کالا چانن [Kālā cānaṇ], Lahore: Institute of Punjabi Language and Culture, →OCLC, page 25:

     تاریخ دے کسے موڑ اُتے راوی تے جھناں دے وِچکار لے علاقے وِچ

     tārīx de kise moṛ utte rāvī te jhanāṉ de vickār le ʻilāqe vicc

     At some point in history, the areas between Ravi and Chenab

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “جھناں”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “جھناں”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “candrabhāgā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 252