Verb

اُنْجُمْنَ • (unjumna) (form I)Category:Arabic non-lemma forms#انجمنCategory:Arabic verb forms#انجمنCategory:Arabic entries with incorrect language header#انجمنCategory:Pages with entries#انجمنCategory:Pages with 4 entries#انجمن /un.d͡ʒum.na/

1. second-person feminine plural imperative of نَجَمَ (najama)

Etymology

Borrowed from PersianCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Persian#انجمنCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Persian#انجمن انجمن (anjoman, “meeting, assembly”), from Middle PersianCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Middle Persian#انجمن 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”)Category:Middle Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#انجمن, itself from AvestanCategory:Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Avestan#انجمن 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”)Category:Avestan terms with redundant transliterations#انجمن.

Noun

انجمن • (encümen) (definite accusative انجمنی (encümeni), plural انجمنلر (encümenler))Category:Ottoman Turkish lemmas#انجمنCategory:Ottoman Turkish nouns#انجمنCategory:Ottoman Turkish entries with incorrect language header#انجمنCategory:Pages with entries#انجمنCategory:Pages with 4 entries#انجمن

1. society, association, club, circle, a group of people who meet to engage in a common interest

   Synonyms: جمعیت (cemʼiyet), محفل (mahfil)

2. convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose

   Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), درنك (dernek), مجلس (meclis), محفل (mahfil)

3. commission, committee, a group of people convened for the accomplishment of a specific task

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “encümen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1442
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “encümen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 264
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انجمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Collegium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 201
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انجمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 446
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “encümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انجمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 213

Etymology

From Middle PersianCategory:Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian#انجمنCategory:Persian terms derived from Middle Persian#انجمن 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”)Category:Middle Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#انجمن, from AvestanCategory:Persian terms derived from Avestan#انجمن 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”)Category:Avestan terms with redundant transliterations#انجمن.

Pronunciation

Noun

انجمن • (anjuman / anjoman) (plural انجمن‌ها (anjuman-hā / anjoman-hâ), Tajik spelling анҷуман)Category:Persian lemmas#انجمنCategory:Persian nouns#انجمنCategory:Persian entries with incorrect language header#انجمنCategory:Pages with entries#انجمنCategory:Pages with 4 entries#انجمن

1. meeting, assembly, consultation, forum, association
2. (chiefly obsoleteCategory:Persian terms with obsolete senses#انجمن) society
3. (InternetCategory:fa:Internet#انجمن) forum

   Synonym: (Iran) فُروم (forum)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical PersianCategory:Urdu terms borrowed from Classical Persian#انجمنCategory:Urdu terms derived from Classical Persian#انجمن انجمن (anjuman, “meeting, assembly”). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle HindiCategory:Urdu terms inherited from Middle Hindi#انجمنCategory:Urdu terms derived from Middle Hindi#انجمن انجمن (anjmn /⁠anjuman⁠/).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ən.d͡ʒʊ.mən/Category:Urdu terms with IPA pronunciation#انجمن
• Rhymes: -ənCategory:Rhymes:Urdu/ən#انجمنCategory:Rhymes:Urdu/ən/3 syllables#انجمن
• Hyphenation: اَنْ‧جُ‧مَنْ

Noun

اَنْجُمَنْ • (anjuman) f (Hindi spelling अंजुमन)Category:Urdu lemmas#انجمنCategory:Urdu nouns#انجمنCategory:Urdu entries with incorrect language header#انجمنCategory:Urdu feminine nouns#انجمنCategory:Pages with entries#انجمنCategory:Pages with 4 entries#انجمن

1. meeting, assembly, gathering

   Synonym: مَحْفِل (mahfil)

   • 1981, “دل چیز کیا ہے آپ مری جان لیجئے”, in Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (lyrics), Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (music), Umrao Jaan, performed by Asha Bhosle:

     اس انجمن میں آپ کو آنا ہے بار بار

     is anjuman mẽ āp ko ānā hai bār bār

     You will have to come again and again to this gathering

     Category:Urdu terms with quotations#انجمن

2. society

   Synonyms: سَماج (samāj), مُعاشِرَہ (mu'āśira)

References

Further reading

• “انجمن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “انجمن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “انجمن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “اَنجُمن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 150