پردیسی

Urdu

Etymology

From پَرْدیس (pardes) +‎ ـی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.d̪eː.siː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Syllabification: پَرْ‧دی‧سی

Adjective

پَرْدیسی • (pardesī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling परदेसी)

1. foreign

Noun

پَرْدیسی • (pardesī) m (Hindi spelling परदेसी)

1. foreigner
2. (figurative) traveler, wanderer
3. (figurative) a long-distance lover

Declension

Declension of پردیسی

	singular	plural
direct	پَرْدیسی (pardesī)	پَرْدیسی (pardesī)
oblique	پَرْدیسی (pardesī)	پَرْدیسِیوں (pardesiyõ)
vocative	پَرْدیسی (pardesī)	پَرْدیسِیو (pardesiyo)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “پردیسی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 352
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “پردیسی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 154
• “پردیسی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “پردیسی”, 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, page 397
• “پردیسی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.