ہنڈی
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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit हुण्डिका (huṇḍikā). Cognate with Punjabi ਹੁੰਡੀ (huṇḍī) / ہُنڈی (hunḍī), Sindhi هُنڊِي / हुंडी / 𑋞𑋣𑋟𑋈𑋢 (huṇḍī), Assamese হুণ্ডী (hundi), Bengali হুন্ডি (hunḍi), Odia ହୁଣ୍ଡି (huṇḍi), Gujarati હૂંડી (hū̃ḍī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦʊn.ɖiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: ہُنْ‧ڈی
Noun
ہُنْڈی • (hunḍī) f (Hindi spelling हुंडी)
Declension
| Declension of ہنڈی | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī) | ہُنْڈِِیاں (hunḍiyā̃) | ||||||
| oblique | ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī) | ہُنْڈِِیوں (hunḍiyō̃) | ||||||
| vocative | ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī) | ہُنْڈِِیو (hunḍiyō) | ||||||
Descendants
- → English: hundi
Further reading
- “ہنڈی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “هنڐي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1237
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہنڈی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 679
- “ہنڈی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- John Shakespear (1834) “هنڐي”, 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 1875
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “huṇḍikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 817