اسیری

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسِیرِی (asīrī). By surface analysis, اَسِیر (asīr) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.siː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: اَ‧سِی‧رِی

Noun

اَسِیری • (asīrī) f (Hindi spelling असीरी)

1. captivity, capture, imprisonment

Declension

Declension of اسیری
	singular	plural
direct	اَسِیری (asīrī)	اَسِیرِیاں (asīriyā̃)
oblique	اَسِیری (asīrī)	اَسِیرِیوں (asīriyō̃)
vocative	اَسِیری (asīrī)	اَسِیرِیو (asīriyō)

Further reading

• “اسیری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اسیری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اسير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “اسيري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 55
• John Shakespear (1834) “اسیري”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC