मेहरबानी

See also: मेहरबान and मेहेरबानी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مهربانی (mihrbānī). By surface analysis, मेहरबान (mehrbān) +‎ -ई (-ī). Compare Punjabi ਮਿਹਰਬਾਨੀ (mihrabānī) / مہربانی (mhrbānī), Gujarati મહેરબાની (maherbānī), Bengali মেহেরবানি (meherbani), Marathi मेहेरबानी (meherbānī).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /meːɦɾ.bɑː.niː/, [meːʱɾ.bäː.niː]

Noun

मेहरबानी • (mehrbānī) f (Urdu spelling مہربانی)

1. kindness

Declension

Declension of मेहरबानी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	मेहरबानी mehrbānī	मेहरबानियाँ mehrbāniyā̃
oblique	मेहरबानी mehrbānī	मेहरबानियों mehrbāniyõ
vocative	मेहरबानी mehrbānī	मेहरबानियो mehrbāniyo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मेहरबानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press