تتلی
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تتلی
Urdu
Etymology
From Middle Hindi تیتری (tytry /tītrī/)[1] / تتری (titrī),[2] from Prakrit 𑀢𑀺𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀭𑀺 (tittiri), ultimately from Sanskrit तित्तिर (tittirá).[3] Dasa, Qureshi relate it to تِیتَر (tītar, “partridge”).[4][5]
Compare Punjabi تِتْلِی (titlī) / ਤਿਤਲੀ (titlī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɪt̪.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: تِت‧لی
Noun
تِتْلی • (titlī) f (Hindi spelling तितली)
- butterfly
- 1972, مِینا کُماری ناز [mīnā kumārī nāz], تنہا چاند [tanhā cānd, Lonely Moon], page 89:
- لمحے اُڑتے ہیں کبھی یا تو تتلیوں کی طرح یا کبھی خوشبوؤں کی مانند چیخ اُٹھتے ہیں
- lamhe uṛte hẽ kabhī yā to titliyõ kī tarh yā kabhī xūśabvũ kī mānind cīx uṭhte hẽ
- Moments fly away, sometimes like butterflies, or sometimes they scream like fragrances.
- (figurative) elegantly-dressed woman
- common rue (Ruta graveolens)
Declension
| Declension of تتلی | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیاں (titliyā̃) | ||||||
| oblique | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیوں (titliyō̃) | ||||||
| vocative | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیو (titliyō) | ||||||
References
- ^ “تیتری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ “تتری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tittirá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تتلی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “तितली”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
Further reading
- “تتلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “تتلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “تتلی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tītarī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press