वे

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See also: ब, ॿ, व, वृ, and -व

Hindi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Hindi वे (ve), वै (vai), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa ओइ (oi), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit *अव (ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *avá. Compare Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀 (ava).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
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- Homophones: वह (vah), वो (vo)

Pronoun[edit]

वे • (ve) m pl or f pl by sense (Urdu spelling وے) (demonstrative)

direct plural of वह (vah); they, those, he (honorific), she (honorific)
वे अच्छे लोग हैं। ― ve acche log ha͠i. ― They are good people.

उन मकानों में छह कमरे हैं।
un makānõ mẽ chah kamre ha͠i.
In those houses there are six rooms.

See also[edit]

इन (in) (near reference)

References[edit]

^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 285
^ Oberlies, Thomas (2005) A Historical Grammar of Hindi, Grazer Vergleichende Arbeiten, →ISBN, page 23

Further reading[edit]

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वे”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Platts, John T. (1884) “वे”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Sanskrit[edit]

Noun[edit]

वे • (ve)

vocative singular of वि (vi) ― O bird

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