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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अपराधी (aparādhī). By surface analysis, अपराध (aprādh, “crime, offence”) + ई (ī). First attested as Old Hindi अपराधी (aparādhī).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /əp.ɾɑː.d̪ʱiː/,
Adjective
अपराधी • (aprādhī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling اَپْرادِھی)
- criminal, offender, sinner, guilty, faulty
Noun
अपराधी • (aprādhī) m (feminine अपराधिनी, Urdu spelling اَپْرادِھی)
- criminal; sinner
- Synonym: मुजरिम (mujrim)
Usage notes
Normally अपराधी (aprādhī) is used for both genders, but the word अपराधिनी (aprādhinī, “female criminal”) exists and may be used more formally.
Declension
Declension of अपराधी (masc ī-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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अपराधी
aprādhī
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अपराधी
aprādhī
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| oblique
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अपराधी
aprādhī
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अपराधियों
aprādhiyõ
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| vocative
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अपराधी
aprādhī
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अपराधियो
aprādhiyo
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Further reading
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “अपराधी”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “अपराधी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Platts, John T. (1884) “अपराधी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “अपराधी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- “अपराधी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Old Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अपराधी (aparādhī).
Noun
अपराधी (aparādhī) m
- sinner
c. 1420,
Kabīr 221.0:
- माधौ मै ऐसा अपराधी, तेरी भगति होत नहीं साधी
- mādhau mai aisā aparādhī, terī bhagati hota nahīṃ sādhī
- Mādhava, I am such a sinner, I am not able to accomplish devotion towards you.
Further reading
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Pronunciation
Adjective
अपराधी • (aparādhī) m
- nominative singular of अपराधिन् (aparādhin)