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Hindi
Etymology
Proto-South Dravidian *cōṭ- Hindi होड़ी (hoṛī)
Inherited from Sanskrit होड (hoḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-). Cognate with Konkani होडी (hoḍī) / hoddi, Gujarati હોડી (hoḍī), Marathi होडी (hoḍī), Dhivehi އޮޑި (oḍi).
Pronunciation
Noun
होड़ी • (hoṛī) f (Urdu spelling ہوڑی)
- (regional) a small flat-bottomed boat (made of a hollowed tree)
2005, नया ज्ञानोदय, Bharatiya Jnanpith, page 81:उन्हें प्रशासन की ओर से खाने-पीने की सामग्री तथा मासिक भत्ता भी मिलता है, डेनियल ने बताया और समुद्र की ओर इशारा किया, “वो देखिए अपनी होड़ी पर […] अण्डमानी पुरुष मछलियों की तलाश में।”- unhẽ praśāsan kī or se khāne-pīne kī sāmagrī tathā māsik bhattā bhī miltā hai, ḍeniyal ne batāyā aur samudra kī or iśārā kiyā, “vo dekhie apnī hoṛī par […] aṇḍamānī puruṣ machliyõ kī talāś mẽ.”
- They also get food and drink and a monthly allowance from the administration, Daniel said and pointed to the sea, “look for the Andamanese men on their hodi in search of fishes.”
2006, Leeladhar Mandloi, काला पानी, Radhakrishna Prakashan, →ISBN, page 82:जंगलों को पार कर उन्होंने समुद्री तट के आगे बढ़ने के लिए बड़ी होड़ियाँ बनाईं।- jaṅglõ ko pār kar unhõne samudrī taṭ ke āge baṛhne ke lie baṛī hoṛiyā̃ banāī̃.
- After crossing the jungles, they made big hodis to move ahead of the sea coast.
Declension
Declension of होड़ी (fem ī-stem)
Further reading
- Platts, John T. (1884) “hoṛī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1241
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “hoṛī”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1081
- “होड़ी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.