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Urdu
Etymology
First attested in c. 1530 as Middle Hindi آندھی (āndhī),[1] inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit , from Sanskrit अन्धिका (andhikā), a compound of अन्ध (andha) + इका (ikā).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
آنْدھی • (āndhī) f (Hindi spelling आंधी)
- storm, tempest, cyclone (of rain, hail, snow etc.)
- sandstorm, dust storm
- darkness
Declension
| Declension of آندھی
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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آندھی (āndhī)
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آندھِیاں (āndhiyā̃)
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| oblique
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آندھی (āndhī)
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آندھِیوں (āndhiyō̃)
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| vocative
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آندھی (āndhī)
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آندھِیو (āndhiyō)
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References
- ^ “آندھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “andhikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 18
Further reading
More information
- “آندھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آندهی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 18
- Platts, John T. (1884) “آندهي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 91
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “آندھی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “آندھی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC