اونٹ
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Urdu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- אוּנְתּ (ūnṭ) — Judeo-Urdu
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Hindi اوٹ (ūṭ) (c. 1565) / اونٹ (ū̃ṭ) (c. 1609), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀝𑁆𑀝 (uṭṭa), from Sanskrit उष्ट्र (úṣṭra, “camel”). Cognate with Punjabi اُوٹھ (ūṭh) / ਊਠ (ūṭha), Saraiki اُٹھ (uṭh) and Sindhi اُٺُ (uṭhu). Also compare Pashto اُوښ (ūx̌) and Persian اُشْتُر (oštor).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) m (Hindi spelling ऊँट)
- camel, dromedary
- 1845, Ahwal-ul-Anbiya, volume 1, page 225:
- ذبح کرنا گائے بکری اونٹ پالو مرغی بط کا درست ہے۔
- zibh karnā gāe bakrī ū̃ṭ pālo murġī bat kā durust hai.
- The slaughter of cow, goat, camel, domestic chicken, [and] duck is permissible.
Declension
[edit]Declension of اونٹ | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | اونٹ (ūnṭ) | اونٹ (ūnṭ) |
oblique | اونٹ (ūnṭ) | اونٹوں (ūnṭō̃) |
vocative | اونٹ (ūnṭ) | اونٹو (ūnṭō) |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: oont
Adjective
[edit]اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ऊँट)
Further reading
[edit]- “اونٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “اونٹ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اونٹ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- The template Template:R:ur:Platts does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اونٿ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC - S. W. Fallon (1879) “اُونت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 181
- John Shakespear (1834) “اونٹ”, 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) “úṣṭra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 112
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