دودھ
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See also: دودة
Urdu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in c. 1411 as Middle Hindi دودھ (dūdh /dvdh/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (duddha), from Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰugdʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugʰ-tó-s, from *dʰewgʰ- (“to yield”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪uːd̪ʱ/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): [d̪uːd̪]
- Rhymes: -uːd̪ʱ
Noun[edit]
دُودھ • (dūdh) m (Hindi spelling दूध)
- milk
- Synonym: شِیر (śīr)
- (by extension) milk; sap of certain plants
- (by extension) coconut water
- a woman's breast, nipple
- (figuratively) family; race; creed; caste
- (figuratively, rare) light (as opposed to darkness)
Declension[edit]
Declension of دودھ | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھ (dūdh) |
oblique | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھوں (dūdhō̃) |
vocative | دُودھ (dūdh) | دُودھو (dūdhō) |
Descendants[edit]
- → Gulf Arabic: ديد (dēd)
Further reading[edit]
- “دودھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دودھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دودهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 317
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دودهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 532
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دودھ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 646
- John Shakespear (1834) “دودهـ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dugdhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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- Urdu terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Urdu terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰewgʰ-
- Urdu terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
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- Urdu terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Urdu terms inherited from Middle Hindi
- Urdu terms derived from Middle Hindi
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