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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian پوشِیدَگِی (pōšīdagī).[1] By surface analysis, پوشِیدَہ (pośīda, “secret, hidden, concealed”) + گِی (gī). First attested in c. 1799 as Middle Hindi پوشِیدَگِی (pvśydgy).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
پوشِیدَگِی • (pośīdagī) f (Hindi spelling पोशीदगी)[3]
- secrecy, hiddenness, concealment
Declension
References
More information
- ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “pośīdagī”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 695.
- ^ “پوشِیدَگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پوشيده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 164
Further reading
- “پوشیدگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.