چمچ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• چَمْچَہ (camca)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چمچه (čamča, čumča), from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəm.mət͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ət͡ʃ

Noun

چَمَّچ • (cammac) m (Hindi spelling चम्मच)

1. spoon; ladle
2. a type of bird

Declension

Declension of چمچ
	singular	plural
direct	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچ (cammac)
oblique	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچوں (cammacō̃)
vocative	چَمَّچ (cammac)	چَمَّچو (cammacō)

Further reading

• “چمچ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چمچ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چمچ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.