کمیٹی

Urdu

Etymology

Corruption of English committee (possibly through Punjabi کَمیٹی (kameṭī)).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.meː.ʈiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: کَ‧مے‧ٹی

Noun

کَمیٹی • (kameṭī) f (Hindi spelling कमेटी)

1. (literally) committee
2. (by extension) a committee session; meeting
3. a municipality
4. (finance) ROSCA; a money saving scheme

Declension

Declension of کمیٹی
	singular	plural
direct	کَمیٹی (kameṭī)	کَمیٹِیاں (kameṭiyā̃)
oblique	کَمیٹی (kameṭī)	کَمیٹِیوں (kameṭiyō̃)
vocative	کَمیٹی (kameṭī)	کَمیٹِیو (kameṭiyō)

Further reading

• “کمیٹی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کمیٹی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کميٿي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 849