سپنا

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *swépnos

Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápnas

Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna)slbor.

Urdu سَپْنا

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from *swep- + *-nós. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi سپنا (spna /⁠sapnā⁠/). Doublet of خْوَاب (xvāb).

Cognates include Latin somnus, Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos), Old English swefn, and (English sweven).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səp.nɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: سَپ‧نا

Noun

سَپْنا • (sapnā) m (Hindi spelling सपना)

1. (poetic or uncommon) dream, reverie, vision

   Synonyms: خْوَاب (xvāb), (rare) رُؤیا (ruyā), (rare) حُلْم (hulm)

   تھوڑی دیر کے بعد، اُن کے سپنے سچّے نکلے۔

   thoṛī der ke ba'ad, un ke sapne sacce nikle.

   After a little while, their dreams became true.

2. dream, aspiration

   ناخدا بننا ہمیشہ اس کا سپنا تھا۔

   nāxudā bannā hameśa us kā sapnā thā.

   It was always his dream to become a pilot.

Declension

Declension of سپنا

	singular	plural
direct	سَپْنا (sapnā)	سَپْنے (sapne)
oblique	سَپْنے (sapne)	سَپْنوں (sapnõ)
vocative	سَپْنے (sapne)	سَپْنو (sapno)

Further reading

• “سپنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “سپنا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]