دہلی
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɪɦ.liː/, [d̪eɦ.liː]
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - (colloquial) IPA(key): /d̪e.liː/, /d̪ɛ.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
[edit]From Sanskrit देहली (dehalī, “threshold”)
Noun
[edit]دِہْلی • (dihlī) f (Hindi spelling देहली)
Declension
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direct | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیاں (dihliyā̃) |
oblique | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیوں (dihliyō̃) |
vocative | دہلی (dihlī) | دہلِیو (dihliyō) |
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian دهلی (dihlī), of uncertain origin. See दिल्ली (dillī) for further details.
Proper noun
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دِہْلی • (dihlī) f (Hindi spelling देहली)
- Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)
- Synonym: دِلّی (dillī)
- 2021 October 23, “دہلی سے ملحق گڑگاؤں میں پھر سے جمعے کی نماز کے خلاف مظاہرہ اور جے شری رام کے نعرے [Demonstrations against Friday prayers, again, in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi and slogans of Jai Shri Ram]”, in BBC News Urdu[1]:
Related terms
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See also
[edit]- جزائر انڈمان و نکوبار (jazāir-e-anḍamān-o-nikobār)
- جموں و کشمیر (jammū̃-o-kaśmīr)
- دادرا و نگر حویلی و دمن و دیو (dādrā-o-nagar-havailī-o-daman-o-dīv)
- دہلی (dihlī)
- لداخ (laddāx)
- لکشادیپ (lakśādīp)
- پدوچیری (pudūcerī)
- چنڈی گڑھ (candī-gaṛh)
Further reading
[edit]- “دہلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēhalī́”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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