ناکہ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• ناکا (nākā)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.kɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: نَا‧کَہ

Noun

نَاکَہ • (nāka) m (Hindi spelling नाका)

1. checkpost (ie. police related)
2. a toll/customs' station
3. avenue; lane
4. eye of a needle
5. the entrance to a road or a pass
6. the end/extremity of a road
7. the point of meeting between two or more roads
8. an opening/gap (ie. between a hedge; fence; bank etc.)

Declension

Declension of ناکہ
	singular	plural
direct	نَاکہ (nākah)	نَاکے (nāke)
oblique	نَاکے (nāke)	نَاکوں (nākõ)
vocative	نَاکے (nāke)	نَاکو (nāko)

Further reading

• “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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC