دودھ
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See also: دودة
Urdu
Alternative forms
Etymology
First attested in c. 1411 as Middle Hindi دودھ (dvdh /dūdh/),[1] inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (duddha), from Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá),[2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰugdʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugʰ-tó-s, from *dʰewgʰ- (“to yield”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪uːd̪ʱ/
- (colloquial) IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -uːd̪ʱ
Noun
دُودھ • (dūdh) m (Hindi spelling दूध)
- milk
- Synonym: شِیر (śīr)
- (by extension) milk; sap of certain plants
- (by extension) coconut water
- a woman's breast, nipple
- (figuratively) family; race; creed; caste
- (figuratively, rare) light (as opposed to darkness)
Declension
| Declension of دودھ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھ (dūdh) | ||||||
| oblique | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھوں (dūdhõ) | ||||||
| vocative | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھو (dūdho) | ||||||
Descendants
- → Gulf Arabic: ديد (dēd)
References
- ^ “دودھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dugdhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
More information
- “دودھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دودهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 317
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دودهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 532
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دودھ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 646
- John Shakespear (1834) “دودهـ”, 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