चमन

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.mən/, [t͡ʃɐ.mɐ̃n]

Borrowed from Classical Persian چمن (čaman).

चमन • (caman) m (Urdu spelling چمن)

1. garden, flower garden, parterre

   Synonyms: उपवन (upvan), उद्यान (udyān), बाग़ (bāġ), पुष्पोद्यान (puṣpodyān), गुलिस्तान (gulistān)

2. a flourishing or thriving place, a place with liveliness and satisfaction, a lush or verdant place

चमन • (caman) m (Urdu spelling چمن)

1. Chaman (a city in Qilla Abdullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan)

Clipping of चमन चूतिया (caman cūtiyā, “absolute moron, idiot”), in which expression चमन (caman, “garden”) acts as an intensifier.

चमन • (caman) m

1. a fool, idiot, dolt, moron

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “चमन”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 1473
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “चमन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 303
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “चमन”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 200
• “चमन”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.