دہائی
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Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From دَہ (da, “ten”) + ـَائی (-āī).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ə.ɦɑː.iː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: دَ‧ہا‧ءِی
Noun
[edit]دَہائی • (dahāī) f (Hindi spelling दहाई)
- a decade
- Synonym: دَشَک (daśak)
- (arithmetic) unit of ten; tens; decade
- increments or multiplication of ten
Declension
[edit]| Declension of دہائی | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | دَہائی (dahāī) | دَہائِیاں (dahāiyā̃) |
| oblique | دَہائی (dahāī) | دَہائِیوں (dahāiyō̃) |
| vocative | دَہائی (dahāī) | دَہائِیو (dahāiyō) |
Further reading
[edit]- “دہائی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دہائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دہائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دہائی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دہائی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “دہائی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC