शगुन

• शकुन (śakun), सगुन (sagun), सौन (saun) (dialectal)

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit शकुन (śakuna).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃə.ɡʊn/, [ʃɐ.ɡʊ̃n]

शगुन • (śagun) m (Urdu spelling شَگُن)

1. omen, augury (especially good)

   Antonym: अपशकुन (apśakun)

2. gift of money or sweets given at an engagement

• शगुनिया (śaguniyā, “fortune-teller, astrologer”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शगुन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press