بھابی

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Urdu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Hindi بھابی (bhaby /⁠bhābī⁠/) (c. 1697)[1] and Middle Hindi بھابھی (bhabhy /⁠bhābhī⁠/), from Prakrit *𑀪𑀸𑀩𑁆𑀪 (*bhābbha), from baby talk.[2] Cognate with Punjabi بھابی (bhābī).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بھابی • (bhābī) f (Hindi spelling भाभी)

  1. sister-in-law (brother's wife)
    Synonym: بھاوَج (bhāvaj)
  2. (by extension) a friend's wife

Declension

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    Declension of بھابی
singular plural
direct بھابی (bhābī) بھابِیاں (bhābiyā̃)
oblique بھابی (bhābī) بھابِیوں (bhābiyō̃)
vocative بھابی (bhābī) بھابِیو (bhābiyō)

References

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  1. ^ “بھابی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhābbha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

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  • “بھابی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهابی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 123
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بهابي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 177
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھابی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
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