पेवड़ी

Hindi

Alternative forms

• पियूड़ी (piyūṛī)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *पीतमृदिका (pītamṛdikā) from पीत (pīta, “yellow”), मृद् (mṛd, “earth, clay”).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /peːʋ.ɽiː/

Noun

पेवड़ी • (pevṛī) f (Urdu spelling پیوڑی)

1. yellow chalk
2. (by extension) a yellow dye of animal origin

Declension

Declension of पेवड़ी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पेवड़ी pevṛī	पेवड़ियाँ pevṛiyā̃
oblique	पेवड़ी pevṛī	पेवड़ियों pevṛiyõ
vocative	पेवड़ी pevṛī	पेवड़ियो pevṛiyo

Descendants

• → English: purree

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पेवड़ी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pītamr̥dikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پيوڙي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 302