ناریل

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi ناریل (naryl /⁠nāriyal⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀭𑀺𑀏𑀮 (ṇāriela), from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela), of Dravidian origin. The hookah sense is a semantic loan from Classical Persian نارگیله (nārgīla), first attested c. 1848. Cognate with Gujarati નારિયળ (nāriyaḷ), Marathi नारळ (nāraḷ), Punjabi ਨਾਰੀਅਲ (nārīala), and Sindhi ناريلُ (nārelu).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.ɾɪ.jəl/
• Rhymes: -əl
• Hyphenation: نَا‧رِ‧یَل

Noun

نَارِیَل • (nāriyal) m (Hindi spelling नारियल)

1. coconut
2. coconut palm
3. narghile, hookah
4. (figurative) skull

Declension

Declension of ناریل
	singular	plural
direct	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)
oblique	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَلوں (nāriyalō̃)
vocative	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَلو (nāriyalō)

Descendants

• → Pashto: ناريل (nāryāl)

Further reading

• “ناریل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ناریل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناريل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ناريِل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “ناریل”, 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
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناریل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.