Ultimately borrowed from Portuguese armário, from Latin armārium. Likely via Pashto and Urdu الماری.
Readings | |
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Dari reading? | almārī |
Dari | الماری |
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Iranian Persian | کابینت |
Tajik | кабинет |
الماری • (almārī)
Borrowed from Portuguese armário, from Latin armārium. Likely passed through intermediate languages (such as Urdu الماری (almārī)) before reaching Punjabi.
اَلْماری • (almārī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਅਲਮਾਰੀ)
Declension of الماری | ||
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dir. sg. | اَلْماری (almārī) | |
dir. pl. | اَلْمارِیاں (almārīyāṉ) | |
singular | plural | |
direct | اَلْماری (almārī) | اَلْمارِیاں (almārīyāṉ) |
oblique | اَلْماری (almārī) | اَلْمارِیاں (almārīyāṉ) |
vocative | اَلْمارِیے (almāriye) | اَلْمارِیو (almārīv) |
ablative | اَلْمارِیوں (almārīvṉ) | اَلْمارِیاں (almārīyāṉ) |
locative | — | — |
instrumental | — | — |
Borrowed from Portuguese almario or armário, from Latin armarium (“closet, chest”), from arma (“weapons, tools”) + -ārium (“denoting a place where things are kept”).
اَلْماری • (almārī) f (Hindi spelling अलमारी)
Declension of الماری | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | الماری (almārī) | المارِیاں (almāriyā̃) | ||||||
oblique | الماری (almārī) | المارِیوں (almāriyō̃) | ||||||
vocative | الماری (almārī) | المارِیو (almāriyō) |