دھلائی

Urdu

Etymology

From دُھلانا (dhulānā) +‎ ـَائی (-āī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱʊ.lɑː.iː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

دُھلائی • (dhulāī) f (Hindi spelling धुलाई)

1. laundering
2. laundry fee

Synonyms

• لانڈری (lānḍrī)

Further reading

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