انڈا

See also: اندا and آنڈا

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa), from Sanskrit अण्ड (aṇḍá), आण्ड (āṇḍá), or अण्डक (aṇḍaka). Compare Punjabi آنڈا (ānḍā) / ਆਂਡਾ (āṇḍā), Sindhi آنو / आनो, Nepali अण्डा (aṇḍā), Gujarati ઈંડું (ī̃ḍũ), Marathi अंडे (aṇḍe), Konkani अंडें (aṇḍẽ), Bengali আণ্ডা (anḍa), এণ্ডা (enḍa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əɳ.ɖɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: اَن‧ڈا

Noun

اَنْڈا • (aṇḍā) m (Hindi spelling अंडा)

1. egg

   اُبْلَا ہُوَا اَنْڈَا ― ublā huā aṇḍā ― boiled egg

2. (slang) zero

Declension

Declension of انڈا
	singular	plural
direct	اَنْڈا (aṇḍā)	اَنْڈے (aṇḍe)
oblique	اَنْڈے (aṇḍe)	اَنْڈوں (aṇḍõ)
vocative	اَنْڈے (aṇḍe)	اَنْڈو (aṇḍo)

Further reading

• “انڈا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “انڈا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “انڈا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “انڐا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 91
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اندا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 154
• John Shakespear (1834) “انڈا”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “āṇḍá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press