जलावतन

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَلَا وَطَن (jalā watan) / جَلَای وَطَن (jalā-i watan), from جَلَا (jalā, “exile”) +‎ وَطَن (watan). The second part is the ancestor of वतन (vatan, “country”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

(Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.lɑː.ʋə.t̪ən/, [d͡ʒɐ.läː.ʋɐ.t̪ɐ̃n]

Noun

जलावतन • (jalāvatan) m (Urdu spelling جلا وطن)

1. exile, expulsion

   Synonym: निर्वासन (nirvāsan)

2. an exile

Declension

Declension of जलावतन (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	जलावतन jalāvatan	जलावतन jalāvatan
oblique	जलावतन jalāvatan	जलावतनों jalāvatanõ
vocative	जलावतन jalāvatan	जलावतनो jalāvatano

Adjective

जलावतन • (jalāvatan) (indeclinable)

1. exiled

Derived terms

• जलावतनी (jalāvatanī, “expulsion”)
• जलावतन करना (jalāvatan karnā, “to exile”)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “जलावतन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press