گاندھی
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Urdu
Alternative forms
- گَنْدھی (gandhī)
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀁𑀥𑀺𑀅 (gaṃdhia), from Sanskrit गान्धिक (gāndhika).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɡɑːn.d̪ʱiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: گان٘‧دھی
Proper noun
گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling गांधी)
Noun
گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m (Hindi spelling गांधी)
Declension
| Declension of گاندھی | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | گان٘دھی (gāndhī) | گان٘دھی (gāndhī) | ||||||
| oblique | گان٘دھی (gāndhī) | گان٘دھِیوں (gāndhiyõ) | ||||||
| vocative | گان٘دھی (gāndhī) | گان٘دھِیو (gāndhiyo) | ||||||
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gāndhika”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 221
Further reading
- “گاندھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “گاندھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گاندھی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 516
- Platts, John T. (1884) “گندهی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 918
- John Shakespear (1834) “گندهي”, 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) “گاندھی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1008