सोखना

Hindi

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit शोषयति (śoṣáyati).[1] First attested as Old Hindi सोषना (soṣanā /⁠sokhanā⁠/).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /soːkʰ.nɑː/, [soːkʰ.näː]
  • Hyphenation: सोख‧ना

Verb

सोखना • (sokhnā) (transitive, Urdu spelling سوکْھنَا)

  1. to absorb, soak
    Synonym: शोषण करना (śoṣaṇ karnā)
  2. to suck, drink, draw in

Conjugation

References

  1. McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सोखना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1041
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