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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Hindi दसवै (dasavai), दसवैं (dasava͠i, Rājasthānī manuscripts) (with adverbizer affix -ai),[1] from Prakrit 𑀤𑀲𑀫 (dasama), from Sanskrit दशम (daśamá). Doublet of دَہُم (dahum, dahm). By surface analysis, دَس (das) + ـوَاں (vā̃).
Pronunciation
Adjective
دَسْواں • (dasvā̃) (Hindi spelling दसवाँ)
- tenth
Declension
References
- ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, pages 195, 240, 249
Further reading
- “دسواں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دسواں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دسوان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “daśamá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press