इंतज़ाम

Hindi

Alternative forms

• इन्तज़ाम (intazām), इंतिज़ाम (intizām)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْتِظَام (intizām), from Arabic اِنْتِظَام (intiẓām, “order, regularity”). First attested in c. 1678 as Middle Hindi انتظام (antzām /⁠intizām⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɪn.t̪ə.zɑːm/, [ɪ̃n̪.t̪ɐ.zä̃ːm], /ɪn.t̪ə.d͡ʒɑːm/, [ɪ̃n̪.t̪ɐ.d͡ʒä̃ːm]
• Hyphenation: इं‧त‧ज़ाम, इन्‧त‧ज़ाम
• Rhymes: -ɑːm

Noun

इंतज़ाम • (intazām) m (Urdu spelling اِنْتِظام)

1. arrangement, preparation

   (का) इंतज़ाम करना ― intazām karnā ― to arrange, plan (something)

Declension

Declension of इंतज़ाम (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	इंतज़ाम intazām	इंतज़ाम, इंतज़ामात intazām, intazāmāt
oblique	इंतज़ाम intazām	इंतज़ामों, इंतज़ामातों intazāmõ, intazāmātõ
vocative	इंतज़ाम intazām	इंतज़ामो, इंतज़ामातो intazāmo, intazāmāto

Derived terms

• इंतज़ामकार (intazāmkār)
• इंतज़ामी (intazāmī)

Further reading

More information

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “इंतज़ाम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 101
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “इंतजाम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 495
• “इंतिज़ाम”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• “इंतज़ाम”, in Hindwi Dictionary [including the languages of Hindi region] (in Hindi), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “intizām, intazām”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 347.