استری

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese estirar, esticar.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪs.t̪ɾiː/, /ɪs.t̪ə.ɾiː/, /ɪs.t̪ɪ.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: اِسْ‧ترْی

Noun

اِسْتْری or اِسْتَری • (istrī or istarī) f (Hindi spelling इस्त्री or इस्तरी)

1. iron, clothes iron

Declension

Declension of استری
	singular	plural
direct	استری (istrī)	استرِیاں (istriyā̃)
oblique	استری (istrī)	استرِیوں (istriyō̃)
vocative	استری (istrī)	استرِیو (istriyō)

Descendants

• → Kannada: ಇಸ್ತ್ರೀ (istrī)
• → Tamil: இஸ்திரி (istiri)
• → Telugu: ఇస్తిరి (istiri), ఇస్త్రీ (istrī)

References

• “استری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “استری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.