دائی

Persian

Noun

دائی • (dâ'i)

1. Alternative form of دایی

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَایَه (dāya).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: دا‧ءِی

Noun

دائِی • (dāī) f (Hindi spelling दाई)

1. midwife; nurse
2. wet-nurse
3. maidservant
4. (figuratively) confidant; insider
5. a kid's game

Declension

Declension of دائی
	singular	plural
direct	دائی (dāī)	دائِیاں (dāiyā̃)
oblique	دائی (dāī)	دائِیوں (dāiyō̃)
vocative	دائی (dāī)	دائِیو (dāiyō)

Further reading

More information

• “دائی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دائی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دائی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “داٴي”, 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