جگہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian جایگاه (jāygāh).

جَگَہ (jagah) f

1. place
2. room
3. vacancy
4. locality

• Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 163.
• Javaid Rahi (2015) “جگہ”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 370, column 2.

• جاگہ (jāgah)
• جائے گاہ (jā-e-gāh)

Borrowed from Classical Persian جایگاه (jāygāh). جاگه (jâgah), from جا (jâ), جای (jây, “place”) + گاه (-gâh, “location suffix”). Compare Old Deccani جاگاہ (jāgāh). Cognate with Marathi जागा (jāgā), Bengali জায়গা (jaẏga), Assamese জেগা (zega).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ɡɑ(ː)/, /d͡ʒə.ɡəɦ/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ɡe/, /d͡ʒə.ɡʱe/
• Hyphenation: جَ‧گَہ
• Rhymes: -əɦ

جَگَہْ or جَگَہ • (jagah or jaga) f (Hindi spelling जगह)

1. place, site
2. space, room
3. post
4. station
5. vacancy (e.g. for a job)

• جَگَہ جَگَہ (jagah jagah, “here and there, everywhere”)

• → Telugu: జాగా (jāgā)

• “جگہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جگہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 230
• “جگہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.