होड़ी
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Inherited from Sanskrit होड (hoḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-). Cognate with Konkani होडी (hoḍī) / hoddi, Gujarati હોડી (hoḍī), Marathi होडी (hoḍī), Dhivehi އޮޑި (oḍi).
Pronunciation
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[edit]होड़ी • (hoṛī) f (Urdu spelling ہوڑی)
- (regional) a small flat-bottomed boat (made of a hollowed tree)
- 2005, नया ज्ञानोदय[1], Bharatiya Jnanpith, page 81:
- उन्हें प्रशासन की ओर से खाने-पीने की सामग्री तथा मासिक भत्ता भी मिलता है, डेनियल ने बताया और समुद्र की ओर इशारा किया, “वो देखिए अपनी होड़ी पर […] अण्डमानी पुरुष मछलियों की तलाश में।”
- unhẽ praśāsan kī or se khāne-pīne kī sāmagrī tathā māsik bhattā bhī miltā hai, ḍeniyal ne batāyā aur samudra kī or iśārā kiyā, “vo dekhie apnī hoṛī par […] aṇḍamānī puruṣ machliyõ kī talāś mẽ.”
- They also get food and drink and a monthly allowance from the administration, Daniel said and pointed to the sea, “look for the Andamanese men on their hodi in search of fishes.”
- 2006, Leeladhar Mandloi, काला पानी, Radhakrishna Prakashan, →ISBN, page 82:
- जंगलों को पार कर उन्होंने समुद्री तट के आगे बढ़ने के लिए बड़ी होड़ियाँ बनाईं।
- jaṅglõ ko pār kar unhõne samudrī taṭ ke āge baṛhne ke lie baṛī hoṛiyā̃ banāī̃.
- After crossing the jungles, they made big hodis to move ahead of the sea coast.
Declension
[edit]Declension of होड़ी (fem ī-stem)
Further reading
[edit]- Platts, John T. (1884) “hoṛī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1241
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “hoṛī”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1081
- “होड़ी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
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