سوکھا

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit सुख (sukhá). Doublet of سُکّھ (sukkh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /sɔː.kʰäː/, [sɔːk̚.kʰäː]
• Rhymes: -äː
• Hyphenation: سَو‧کھا

Adjective

سَوکھا or سَوکّھا • (saukhā or saukkhā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੌਖਾ)

1. easy (as opposed to difficult)

   Antonym: اَوکھا

2. convenient; comfortable

Declension

Declension of سوکھا
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	سَوکھا (saukhā)	سَوکھے (saukhe)		سَوکھی (saukhī)	سَوکھیاں (saukhīyāṉ)
oblique	سَوکھے (saukhe)	سَوکھیْاں (saukhiyāṉ)		سَوکھی (saukhī)	سَوکھیاں (saukhīyāṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سوَکھّا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਸੌਖਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sukhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 776

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (sukkha), from Sanskrit शुष्क (śuṣka), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sus-. Doublet of خُشْک (xuśk).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /suː.kʰɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: سُو‧کھا

Adjective

سُوکھا • (sūkhā) (Hindi spelling सूखा)

1. dry; dried up
2. sapless, juiceless
3. arid
4. shrivelled; thin

Declension

Declension of سوکھا
	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	سُوکھا (sūkhā)	سُوکھے (sūkhe)		سُوکھی (sūkhī)	سُوکھی (sūkhī)
indirect	سُوکھے (sūkhe)	سُوکھے (sūkhe)		سُوکھی (sūkhī)	سُوکھی (sūkhī)
vocative	سُوکھے (sūkhe)	سُوکھے (sūkhe)		سُوکھی (sūkhī)	سُوکھی (sūkhī)

Further reading

• “سوکھا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سوکھا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوکهنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سوکها”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 700
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوکها”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 794
• John Shakespear (1834) “سوکھا”, 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