ناچنا

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi [Term?], from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀤𑀺 (ṇaccadi), from Sanskrit नृत्यति (nṛ́tyati).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nɑːt͡ʃ.nɑː/
  • Hyphenation: نَاچْ‧نَا
  • Rhymes: -ɑːt͡ʃ.nɑː

Verb

نَاچْنَا • (nācnā) (intransitive, Hindi spelling नाचना)

  1. to dance
  2. (figuratively) to be instrumental (ie. to follow or act on someone's order)
  3. (euphemistic) to have sexual intercourse

Conjugation

  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

Further reading

  • ناچنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ناچنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناچنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 631
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ناچنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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    S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناچنا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1148
  • John Shakespear (1834) “ناچنا”, 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
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nŕ̊tyati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 427
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