दलाल

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Hindi

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). First attested as Old Hindi दलाल (dalāla).

Pronunciation

Noun

दलाल • (dalāl) m (Urdu spelling دَلَال)

  1. broker, dealer, agent
  2. pimp

Declension

Declension of दलाल (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct दलाल
dalāl 		दलाल
dalāl
oblique दलाल
dalāl 		दलालों
dalālõ
vocative दलाल
dalāl 		दलालो
dalālo

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Burmese: ဒလန် (da.lan)
  • → English: dalal, dalaal, Dalal

Further reading

Marathi

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”).

Pronunciation

Noun

दलाल • (dalāl) m

  1. broker, go-between

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “दलाल”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary‎, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, page 67
  • Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “दलाल”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 404
  • दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण (1932-1950) “दलाल”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे : महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 1620.

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). Compare Old Punjabi ਦਲਾਲੁ (dalālu), Middle Bengali দালাল (dalal).

Noun

दलाल (dalāla)

  1. broker

Derived terms

Descendants

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, page 538
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