آشنا

āshnā, s. com. gend. Acquaintance; friend; associate; intimate friend, familiar; lover, sweetheart; paramour; mistress, concubine;—adj. Acquainted (with, -se), knowing, known; attached (to), fond (of):—āshnā-parast, adj. Friendly, attentive to friends, sociable, obliging:—āshnā-rū, s.m.f. An apparent or outward friend:—āshnāhonā, v.n. To become very friendly; to become tame or domesticated (an animal; syn. hil-jānā).