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Khalaj
Noun
باجی (bâcı ) (definite accusative باجیݧ , plural باجیلار )
Arabic spelling of bâcı ( “ sister ” )
Declension
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bāča .
Noun
باجی • (bacı )
older sister
sister
wife
Descendants
Turkish: bacı
→ Classical Persian: بَاجِی ( bājī ) → Gujarati: બાજી ( bājī ) → Khalaj: bâcı → Hindustani:Hindi: बाजी ( bājī ) Urdu: باجی ( bājī ) → Punjabi: باجی ( bājī )
References
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkic , compare Turkish bacı .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
bājī
Dari reading?
bājī
Iranian reading?
bâji
Tajik reading?
boji
Noun
باجی • (bâji ) ( Classical Persian , now dialectal )
sister (usually older sister )
woman
Usage notes
It was usually used to address an older sister or an old woman in the past
Descendants
→ Gujarati: બાજી ( bājī )
→ Khalaj: bâcı
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: बाजी ( bājī )
Urdu: باجی ( bājī )
→ Punjabi: باجی ( bājī )
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بَاجِی ( bājī ) , from Ottoman Turkish باجی ( bacı ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
بَاجی • (bājī ) f (Hindi spelling बाजी )
older sister
Synonyms: آپا ( āpā ) , آپی ( āpī )
Antonyms: بَھیَّا ( bhayyā ) , لالَہ ( lāla )
( polite ) any female person
Synonym: بَہَن ( bahan )
Declension
Declension of باجی
singular
plural
direct
باجی ( bājī )
باجِیاں ( bājiyā̃ )
oblique
باجی ( bājī )
باجِیوں ( bājiyō̃ )
vocative
باجی ( bājī )
باجِیو ( bājiyō )
Further reading
More information
“باجی ”, in اُردُو لُغَت ( urdū luġat ) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017 .
“باجی ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت ( rexta luġat ) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024 .
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971 ) “باجی ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary , Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884 ) “باجي ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English , London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 118
S. W. Fallon (1879 ) “باجی ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary , Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.