जोइ पोइ
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Nepali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Dvandva compound of जोइ (joi) + पोइ (poi), literally “husband and wife”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]जोइ पोइ • (joi poi)
- married couple
- Synonym: पति-पत्नी (pati-patnī)
Further reading
[edit]- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1931) “joi-poi”, in A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, page 223
- “जोईपोइ”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary][1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018, page 472, column 1