آنکھ

See also: انکھ

Urdu

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آنکھ

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آنکھ

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ناک

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi آن٘کھ (ā̃kh) / اَن٘کھ (aṅkh), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀺 (akkhi), from Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Cognates include Assamese আখি (akhi), Bengali আঁখি (ãkhi), Bhojpuri आँखि (ā̃khi), Gujarati આંખ (ā̃kha), Kashmiri أچھ / ॳछ (ạch), Maithili आँखि (ā̃khɨ), Odia ଆଖି (akhi), Punjabi اَکّھ (akkh), Romani jakh, and Sindhi اَکہِ (akhi).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ːkʰ/, /ɑ̃ːᵑkʰ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ːkʰ

Noun

آن٘کھ • (ā̃kh) f (Hindi spelling आँख or आंख)

1. (anatomy) eye

   Synonym: نَین (nain)

2. glance, look

   Synonym: نَظَر (nazar)

Declension

Declension of آنکھ
	singular	plural
direct	آنکھ (ā̃kh)	آنکھیں (ā̃khẽ)
oblique	آنکھ (ā̃kh)	آنکھوں (ā̃khõ)
vocative	آنکھ (ā̃kh)	آنکھو (ā̃kho)

Further reading

• “آنکھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “آنکھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آنکھ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

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Platts, John Thompson (1884) “آنکهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “آنکهـ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 161

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John Shakespear (1834) “انکهہ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ákṣi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 3