شہزادی
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Punjabi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- شاہْزادِی (śāhzādī)
Etymology
[edit]From شَہْزادَہ (śahzādah) + ـی (-y).
Noun
[edit]شَہْزادِی • (śahzādī) f (male equivalent شَہْزادَہ, Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਹਿਜ਼ਾਦੀ)
- princess
- Synonym: راج کُمارِی (rāj kumārī)
Further reading
[edit]- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “شہزادی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz], page 1877
- “ਸ਼ਾਹਜ਼ਾਦੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
Urdu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- شاہْزادِی (śāhzādī)
Etymology
[edit]From شَہْزادَہ (śahzāda) + ـی (-ī). First attested in 1784[1] as Middle Hindi شاہزادی (śahzady /śāhzādī/).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃəɦ.zɑː.d̪iː/, [ʃɛʱ.zäː.d̪iː]
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: شَہْ‧زا‧دِی
Noun
[edit]شَہزادِی • (śahzādī) f (male equivalent شَہْزادَہ (śahzāda), Hindi spelling शहज़ादी)[2][3][4]
- princess (a king's daughter, granddaughter or other female descendant)
- Synonyms: راج کُمارِی (rāj kumārī), راج کَنِیَا (rāj kaniyā)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | شَہْزادی (śahzādī) | شَہْزادِیاں (śahzādiyā̃) |
| oblique | شَہْزادی (śahzādī) | شَہْزادِیوں (śahzādiyō̃) |
| vocative | شَہْزادی (śahzādī) | شَہْزادِیو (śahzādiyō) |
References
[edit]More information
- ^ “شاہ زادی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884), “shāh-zādī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 720
- ^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “شہزاده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 410
- ^ “شہزادی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
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- Punjabi terms suffixed with ـی
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- Punjabi nouns with other-gender equivalents
- Punjabi nouns in Shahmukhi script
- Punjabi feminine nouns
- pa:Female people
- pa:Monarchy
- pa:Nobility
- pa:Stock characters
- Urdu terms suffixed with ـی
- Urdu terms inherited from Middle Hindi
- Urdu terms derived from Middle Hindi
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- Rhymes:Urdu/iː
- Rhymes:Urdu/iː/3 syllables
- Urdu lemmas
- Urdu nouns
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- Urdu feminine nouns
- Urdu nouns with declension
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- ur:Female people
- ur:Monarchy
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