سپنا

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *swépnos

Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápnas

Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna)slbor.

Urdu سَپْنا (sapnā)

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swápnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from *swep- + *-nós. First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi سپنا (spna /⁠sapnā⁠/).^[1] Doublet of خْوَاب (xvāb).

Cognates include Latin somnus, Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos), Old English swefn, and (English sweven).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səp.nɑː/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: سَپ‧نا

Noun

سَپْنا • (sapnā) m (Hindi spelling सपना)

1. dream, reverie, vision

   Synonyms: خْوَاب (xvāb), (rare) رُؤیا (ruyā)

   تھوڑی دیر کے بعد، اُن کے سپنے سچّے نکلے۔

   thoṛī der ke ba'ad, un ke sapne sacce nikle.

   After a little while, their dreams became true.

Declension

Declension of سپنا
	singular	plural
direct	سَپْنا (sapnā)	سَپْنے (sapne)
oblique	سَپْنے (sapne)	سَپْنوں (sapnõ)
vocative	سَپْنے (sapne)	سَپْنو (sapno)

References

1. “سپنا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

• “سپنا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “سپنا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]