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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi سہیلی (shyly /sahelī/) (c. 1564),[1] from Prakrit 𑀲𑀳𑀻 (sahī) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮- (-la-) + -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit सखी (sakhī, “woman's confidante; mistress”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sákʰā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo, from the root *sekʷ- (“to follow”).[2] Doublet of سَکھی (sakhī). Cognate with Punjabi ਸਹੇਲੀ (sahelī) / سَہیلی (sahelī) and Sindhi ساهيڙي (saheṛī).
Pronunciation
Noun
سَہیلی • (sahelī) f (Hindi spelling सहेली)
- female friend, confidant (of a woman)
- Synonym: سَکھی (sakhī)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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سہیلی (sahelī)
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سہیلِیاں (saheliyā̃)
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| oblique
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سہیلی (sahelī)
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سہیلِیوں (saheliyō̃)
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| vocative
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سہیلی (sahelī)
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سہیلِیو (saheliyō)
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References
- ^ “سہیلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sakhi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 756
Further reading
More information
- “سہیلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سہيلی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 393
- Platts, John T. (1884) “سہيلي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “سہیلی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “سہیلی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.