जिन सोया तिन खोया jin sōyā tin khōyā

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919	On this site
c	ch
ś	śh
ṣ	ṣh
r̥	r̥i

A few reading pointers:

ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · prop.

Earlier definition

Definition

He who is asleep loses.

Usual translation

those who remain sleeping lose everything
those who remain sleeping lose out

Origin of the definition

The one who sleeps at the time of Amritvela is the one who looses all the gains and valuable time.

जो jō (hindi)

Relative pronoun (without distinction of gender or number): who, that, which, what. Can be coupled with vah creating an identity relationship between the two terms of two propositions in the sentence.

खोना khōnā (hindi)

To lose, to squander.

सोना sōnā (hindi)

To sleep.

वह vah (hindi)

Third person personal pronoun: he, she, it (and also they).
Distant demonstrative pronoun and adjective: that (and also those).