ناریل

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi ناریل (naryl) (c. 1611), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀭𑀺𑀏𑀮 (ṇāriela), from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela), of Dravidian origin. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Classical Persian نَارْگِیلَه (nārgīla).

Cognate with Gujarati નારિયળ (nāriyaḷ), Marathi नारळ (nāraḷ), Punjabi ਨਾਰੀਅਲ (nārīala), and Sindhi ناريلُ (nārelu).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.ɾɪ.jəl/
• Rhymes: -əl
• Hyphenation: نَا‧رِ‧یَل

Noun

نَارِیَل • (nāriyal) m (Hindi spelling नारियल)

1. coconut
2. coconut palm
4. narghile, hookah [1848 c.]
5. (figurative) skull

Declension

Declension of ناریل
	singular	plural
direct	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)
oblique	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَلوں (nāriyalõ)
vocative	نَارِیَل (nāriyal)	نَارِیَلو (nāriyalo)

Descendants

• → Pashto: ناريل (nāryāl)

Further reading

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