Source: https://jugti.com/kosh/words/khoon/ ਖ [Kosh](https://jugti.com/kosh/)/[Words](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/)/Noun Word # ਖੂਨ khoon Say it**KHOON**Type**Noun** In short Khoon (ਖੂਨ) is the Punjabi word for blood, the red liquid that circulates through the arteries and veins, carrying oxygen and nourishment to and from the cells of the body. Khandbahale defines blood in exactly those terms, and the same word carries a second sense in Punjabi: family and descent, one's own kin. ## How it's used 1. 1ਡਾਕਟਰ ਨੇ ਖੂਨ ਦੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਕਰਵਾਈ।The doctor had a blood test done. _khoon test, a blood test_ 2. 2ਉਸ ਨੇ ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਖੂਨ ਦਾਨ ਕੀਤਾ।He went to the hospital and donated blood. _khoon daan, blood donation_ 3. 3ਇਹ ਮੇਰਾ ਅਪਣਾ ਖੂਨ ਹੈ, ਮੇਰਾ ਪੁੱਤਰ ਹੈ।This is my own khoon, my son. _apna khoon, one's own kin_ Show 1 more example 1. 4ਖੇਡ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਖੂਨ ਗਰਮ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ।In the game his blood ran hot, he grew passionate. _garam khoon, hot blood_ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਰਥ ਖੂਨ ਸਰੀਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਦੌੜਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਲਾਲ ਤਰਲ ਨੂੰ ਕਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ। ਇਹ ਨਾੜੀਆਂ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਸਾਰੇ ਸਰੀਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਕਸੀਜਨ ਅਤੇ ਖੁਰਾਕ ਪਹੁੰਚਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਖੂਨ ਦਾ ਦੂਜਾ ਅਰਥ ਪਰਿਵਾਰ ਅਤੇ ਸੰਤਾਨ ਵੀ ਹੈ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਅਪਣਾ ਖੂਨ ਕਹਿ ਕੇ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਆਪਣੇ ਸਕੇ ਸੰਬੰਧੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਖੂਨ ਦੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਲੋੜ ਪੈਣ ਤੇ ਖੂਨ ਦਾਨ ਵੀ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। What does khoon mean in Punjabi? Khoon (ਖੂਨ) means blood: the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other animals, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and from the cells of the body. Khandbahale gives that definition for blood and describes blood itself as made of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma, while everyday English to Punjabi word lists give blood as ਖੂਨ. ## What does khoon mean in Punjabi? Khoon is first the body's own river, and daily speech follows it everywhere. A doctor orders a khoon test, a hospital asks for khoon daan, blood donation, and Rekhta records the same donation phrase as khoon ka atiya. When blood stops and thickens in a wound, Rekhta gives khoon-e-basta, clotted blood. The flow itself has a name too, gardish-e-khoon, blood circulation, the movement of khoon through the veins, which dictionaries record as a Persian compound. ## Where does the word khoon come from? Khoon reached Punjabi through Persian: Rekhta marks khoon-e-basta, clotted blood, as Persian in origin, and records the khoon compounds of circulation and donation in the same Persian family. Set beside it, Punjabi also keeps lahu (ਲਹੂ), an older home word for blood that survives in compounds such as lahu-rahit, bloodless, and in book titles and songs. In the clinic and the bazaar, though, khoon is the word everyone reaches for first. ## Why does khoon also mean family? Khandbahale lists the synonyms of blood as vital fluid, life force, kin and heritage, and its definitions give the second sense directly: a family or group of people connected by descent. So Punjabi speaks of apna khoon, one's own blood, for one's own children and closest kin, the tie that is carried in the body itself. The same page notes the character sense kept in hot blood and cold blood: garam khoon, hot blood, is the quick, passionate temper people forgive in the young. ## Related words [ਖੂਨ ਪਸੀਨਾ ਇੱਕ ਕਰਨਾkhoon paseena ikk karnaTo work extremely hard](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/khoon-paseena-ikk-karna/)[ਅੱਖakkhEye](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/akkh/)[ਸਿਰsirrhead](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/sirr/)[ਹੱਡੀhaddiBone: one of the hard pieces that together form the skeleton](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/haddi/) Sources (4) 1. [Khandbahale: Blood is the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and from the cells; synonyms vital fluid, life force, kin and heritage; a second sense is family connected by descent](https://www.khandbahale.com/language/punjabi-dictionary-translation-meaning-of-Blood) 2. [Rekhta Dictionary: KHuun-e-basta, origin Persian, means clotted blood](https://www.rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-khuun-e-basta) 3. [Rekhta Dictionary: gardish-e-KHuun, origin Persian, means blood circulation, the movement of blood in the veins](https://www.rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-gardish-e-khuun) 4. [Rekhta Dictionary: KHuu.n, origin Persian, means blood; the full form KHuun also lists family, race and lineage among its meanings](https://www.rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-khuun) [Report a correction](https://jugti.com/corrections/) **Jugti is free and independent.** Reader support keeps the Kosh growing. 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