जहन्नुम

Hindi

Alternative forms

• जहन्नम (jahannam)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جهنم (jahannam), from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam), from Hebrew גהינום (Gehennam), from גַּיא בֶּן הִנֹּם (Ge ben Hinnom, “Valley of Hinnom”).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ɦən.nʊm/, [d͡ʒɛ.ɦɛ̃n.nʊ̃m]

Noun

जहन्नुम • (jahannum) m (Urdu spelling جہنم)

1. (chiefly Islam) hell, Gehenna, Jahannam

   Synonyms: (Hinduism) नरक (narak), (Zoroastrianism and Islam) दोज़ख़ (dozax)

Declension

Declension of जहन्नुम (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुम jahannum
oblique	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुमों jahannumõ
vocative	जहन्नुम jahannum	जहन्नुमो jahannumo

References

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