انڈا
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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa), from Sanskrit अण्ड (aṇḍá), आण्ड (āṇḍá), or अण्डक (aṇḍaka). Compare Punjabi آنڈا (ānḍā) / ਆਂਡਾ (āṇḍā), Sindhi آنو / आनो, Nepali अण्डा (aṇḍā), Gujarati ઈંડું (ī̃ḍũ), Marathi अंडे (aṇḍe), Konkani अंडें (aṇḍẽ), Bengali আণ্ডা (anḍa), এণ্ডা (enḍa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /əɳ.ɖɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: اَن‧ڈا
Noun
اَنْڈا • (aṇḍā) m (Hindi spelling अंडा)
Declension
| Declension of انڈا | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | اَنْڈا (aṇḍā) | اَنْڈے (aṇḍe) | ||||||
| oblique | اَنْڈے (aṇḍe) | اَنْڈوں (aṇḍõ) | ||||||
| vocative | اَنْڈے (aṇḍe) | اَنْڈو (aṇḍo) | ||||||
Further reading
- “انڈا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “انڈا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “انڈا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “انڐا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 91
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “اندا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 154
- John Shakespear (1834) “انڈا”, 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
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “āṇḍá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press