मलाई
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See also: मलई
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Arabic مَلَأَ (malaʔa, “to stack, to fill”). Alternatively, derived from Sanskrit मण्ड (maṇḍa, “thick cream”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]मलाई • (malāī) f (Urdu spelling ملائی)
- malai, cream (cooking ingredient made from milk)
Declension
[edit]Declension of मलाई (fem ind ī-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मलाई”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 559-60
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “manda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Nepali
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]मलाई • (malāī)