کلائی
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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀮𑀸𑀇𑀆 (kalāiā), from Sanskrit कलाची (kalācī, “forearm”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kə.lɑː.iː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː.iː
- Hyphenation: کَ‧لا‧ءِی
Noun
کَلائِی • (kalāī) f (Hindi spelling कलाई)
Declension
| Declension of کلائی | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | کَلائی (kalāī) | کَلائِیاں (kalāiyā̃) | ||||||
| oblique | کَلائی (kalāī) | کَلائِیوں (kalāiyō̃) | ||||||
| vocative | کَلائی (kalāī) | کَلائِیو (kalāiyō) | ||||||
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kalācī-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “کلائي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 842
Further reading
- “کلائی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “کلائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کلائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “کلائي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 937
- John Shakespear (1834) “کلاٴي”, 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, page 1358