آندھی

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi آندھی (āndhy /⁠āndhī⁠/) (c. 1530), from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit अन्धिका (andhikā), a compound of अन्ध (andha) +‎ इका (ikā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːn.d̪ʱiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: آن‧دھی

Noun

آنْدھی • (āndhī) f (Hindi spelling आंधी)

1. storm (ie. tempest, cyclone or a storm of any kind of rain, hail, snow etc.)
2. sandstorm, dust storm
3. darkness

Declension

Declension of آندھی

	singular	plural
direct	آنْدھی (āndhī)	آنْدھِیاں (āndhiyā̃)
oblique	آنْدھی (āndhī)	آنْدھِیوں (āndhiyō̃)
vocative	آنْدھی (āndhī)	آنْدھِیو (āndhiyō)

Further reading

More information

• “آندھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آندهی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 18
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آندهي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 91
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آندھی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “آندھی”, 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