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تایا

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Urdu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Hindi تایا (taya /⁠tāyā⁠/) (c. 1435),[1] from Sanskrit *तातिय (*tātiya) / तात्य (tātyá).[2]

Cognate with Punjabi تایْا (tāyā) / ਤਾਇਆ (tāiā).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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تَایا • (tāyā) m (female equivalent تَائِی (tāī), Hindi spelling ताया)

  1. paternal uncle (father's elder brother)

Declension

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Declension of تایا
singular plural
direct تایا (tāyā) تائے (tāye)
oblique تائے (tāye) تائوں (tāyõ)
vocative تائے (tāye) تائو (tāyo)

References

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  1. ^ “تایا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*tātiya”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 328

Further reading

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  • “تایا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “تایا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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