آخری

See also: أجزى, اجري, أجزي, آجري, أخرى, اخیری, اجزي, and أجري

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir)bor.

Classical Persian آخِر (āxir)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-Iranian *-kas

Old Persian -𐎡𐎣 (-i-k)

Middle Persian -yk' (/⁠-īg⁠/)

Classical Persian ـِی (-ī)

Classical Persian آخِرِی (āxirī)bor.

Urdu آخری

Borrowed from Classical Persian آخِرِی (āxirī), from آخِر (āxir) + ـِی (-ī). By surface analysis, آخر (āxir, “last”) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.xɪ.ɾiː/, /ɑːx.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Adjective

آخِری or آخْری • (āxirī or āxrī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling आख़िरी or आख़री)

1. final, last

   اِس بَس کا آخِری سْٹوپ کَون سا ہَے؟

   is bas kā āxirī sṭop kaun sā hai?

   What is the last stop of this bus?

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آخری”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 52
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آخری”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 30
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آخری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 6
• “آخری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “آخری”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 51
• “آخری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.