گاندھی

Urdu

Alternative forms

• گَنْدھی (gandhī)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi گاندھی (gandhy /⁠gāndhī⁠/) (c. 1654), from Apabhramsa गंधीय (gaṃdhīya), from Prakrit 𑀕𑀁𑀥𑀺𑀅 (gaṃdhia), from Sanskrit गान्धिक (gāndhika). Sense 1.1 is a semantic loan from Gujarati ગાંધી (gāndhī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn.d̪ʱiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: گان٘‧دھی

Proper noun

گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling गांधी)

1. a surname, Gandhi, originating as an occupation
   2. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)

Noun

گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m (Hindi spelling गांधी)

1. perfumer

Declension

Declension of گاندھی

	singular	plural
direct	گان٘دھی (gāndhī)	گان٘دھی (gāndhī)
oblique	گان٘دھی (gāndhī)	گان٘دھِیوں (gāndhiyõ)
vocative	گان٘دھی (gāndhī)	گان٘دھِیو (gāndhiyo)

Further reading

• “گاندھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گاندھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “گاندھی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 516
• Platts, John T. (1884), “گندهی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 918
• John Shakespear (1834), “گندهي”, 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
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “گاندھی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1008