دہلی
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Urdu
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɪɦ.liː/,
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - (colloquial) IPA(key): /d̪e.liː/, /d̪ɛ.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
From Sanskrit देहली (dehalī, “threshold”)
Noun
دِہْلی • (dihlī) f (Hindi spelling देहली)
Declension
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| direct | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیاں (dihliyā̃) | ||||||
| oblique | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیوں (dihliyō̃) | ||||||
| vocative | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیو (dihliyō) | ||||||
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian دهلی (dihlī), of uncertain origin. See दिल्ली (dillī) for further details.
Proper noun
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دِہْلی • (dihlī) f (Hindi spelling देहली)
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
See also
- (Union territories) یونین علاقہ (yūniyan ilāqā); جزائر انڈمان و نکوبار (jazāir-e-anḍamān-o-nikobār), چنڈی گڑھ (candī-gaṛh), دادرا و نگر حویلی و دمن و دیو (dādrā-o-nagar-havailī-o-daman-o-dīv), دہلی (dihlī), جموں و کشمیر (jammū̃-o-kaśmīr), لداخ (laddāx), لکشادیپ (lakśādīp), پدوچیری (pudūcerī), (Category: ur:Union territories of India)
Further reading
- “دہلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēhalī́”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press