روحانی

See also: روحاني

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُوحَانِيّ (rūḥāniyy).

Pronunciation

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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [roː.ɦɑː.níː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [rʊ.wɑː.níː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ru.wɔː.ní]
 

Readings
Classical reading? rūhānī
Dari reading? rūhānī
Iranian reading? ruhâni
Tajik reading? ruhonī

Noun

روحانی • (rowhâni) (plural روحانیون (rowhâniyyun) or روحانی‌ها (rowhâni-hâ) or روحانیان (rowhâniân))

  1. clergyman

Adjective

روحانی • (rowhâni)

  1. good, agreeable
  2. clean, pure
  3. spiritual
  4. holy

Proper noun

روحانی • (rowhâni)

  1. a surname, Rohani, Rouhani, Rowhani, or Rawhani.

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian روحانی (rūhānī), from Arabic رُوحَانِيّ (rūḥāniyy).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɾuː.ɦɑː.niː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: رُو‧حا‧نی

Adjective

رُوحانی • (rūhānī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling रूहानी)

  1. spiritual (as opposed to physical)
    Antonym: جِسْمانی (jismānī)
  2. holy; pure
  3. wholehearted

Further reading

  • روحانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • روحانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “روحانی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “روحانی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
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