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Urdu
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).
Pronunciation
Noun
گَج • (gaj) m (Hindi spelling गज) (rare)
- elephant
- Synonym: ہاتھی (hāthī)
References
- “گج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “گج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “گج”, 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