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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi بھابی (bhaby /bhābī/) (c. 1697)[1] and Middle Hindi بھابھی (bhabhy /bhābhī/), from Prakrit *𑀪𑀸𑀩𑁆𑀪 (*bhābbha), from baby talk.[2] Cognate with Punjabi بھابی (bhābī).
Pronunciation
Noun
بھابی • (bhābī) f (Hindi spelling भाभी)
- sister-in-law (brother's wife)
- Synonym: بھاوَج (bhāvaj)
- (by extension) a friend's wife
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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بھابی (bhābī)
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بھابِیاں (bhābiyā̃)
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| oblique
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بھابی (bhābī)
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بھابِیوں (bhābiyō̃)
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| vocative
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بھابی (bhābī)
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بھابِیو (bhābiyō)
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References
- ^ “بھابی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhābbha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
- “بھابی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهابی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 123
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بهابي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 177
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھابی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
