دادی

Urdu

Etymology

Feminine of دادا (dādā), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀤𑀸𑀤𑁆𑀤- (*dādda-). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi دادی (dādī)ِ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.d̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: دا‧دی

Noun

دادی • (dādī) f (masculine دادا (dādā), Hindi spelling दादी)

1. paternal grandmother
2. (polite) an old woman

Declension

Declension of دادی
	singular	plural
direct	دادی (dādī)	دادِیاں (dādiyā̃)
oblique	دادی (dādī)	دادِیوں (dādiyō̃)
vocative	دادی (dādī)	دادِیو (dādiyō)

Related terms

• نانی (nānī)

Further reading

More information

• “دادی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دادا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 298
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دادي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 500
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دادي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 611
• John Shakespear (1834) “دادی”, 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