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Urdu
Etymology
From Arabic صَلِيبِيّ (ṣalībiyy, “crusader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
صَلِیبی • (salībī) m (Hindi spelling सलीबी)
- (derogatory, slur) Western imperialist, Euro-American invader
- (historical) crusader
- Christian
Derived terms
- مَسِیح بے صَلِیب (masīh-e-be-salīb, “Karl Marx”, literally “messiah without a cross”)
References
- “صلیبی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صلیبی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “صلیبی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “صلیبی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.