دودھ

See also: دودة

Urdu

Alternative forms

• دُدُّھو (duddhū) — childish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰugʰ-tó-s

Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdha)

Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (duddha)

Urdu دُودھ (dūdh)

Inherited from Middle Hindi دودھ (dvdh /⁠dūdh⁠/) (c. 1411), / دود (dvd /⁠dūd⁠/) (c. 1635), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (duddha), from Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá), 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): [d̪uːd̪]
• Rhymes: -uːd̪ʱ

Noun

دُودھ • (dūdh) m (Hindi spelling दूध)

1. milk

   Synonym: شِیر (śīr)

2. (by extension) milk; sap of certain plants
3. (by extension) coconut water
4. a woman's breast, nipple
5. (figuratively) family; race; creed; caste
6. (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)

Further reading

More information

• “دودھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• 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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC