ناکہ
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Urdu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ناکا (nākā)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit [Term?].
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nɑː.kɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: نَا‧کَہ
Noun
[edit]نَاکَہ • (nāka) m (Hindi spelling नाका)
- checkpost (ie. police related)
- a toll/customs' station
- avenue; lane
- eye of a needle
- the entrance to a road or a pass
- the end/extremity of a road
- the point of meeting between two or more roads
- an opening/gap (ie. between a hedge; fence; bank etc.)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ناکہ | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | نَاکہ (nākah) | نَاکے (nāke) | ||||||
oblique | نَاکے (nāke) | نَاکوں (nākõ) | ||||||
vocative | نَاکے (nāke) | نَاکو (nāko) |
Further reading
[edit]- “ناکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ناکا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ناکا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناکا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “ناکا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC