अंडा

See also: अंडे and अंडें

Hindi

अंडे

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-dró-s?

Proto-Indo-Aryan *āndrám

Sanskrit *आ॒न्द्र (*āndrá)

Sanskrit आ॒ण्ड (āṇḍá)

Sanskrit अ॒ण्ड (aṇḍá)

Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa)

Hindi अंडा

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀟 (aṃḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-) without cluster simplification, from Sanskrit अ॒ण्ड (aṇḍá).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /əɳ.ɖɑː/, [ɐ̃ɳ.ɖäː]

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Noun

अंडा • (aṇḍā) m (Urdu spelling اَنْڈَا)

1. egg

   उबला हुआ अंडा ― ublā huā aṇḍā ― boiled egg

Declension

Declension of अंडा (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	अंडा aṇḍā	अंडे aṇḍe
oblique	अंडे aṇḍe	अंडों aṇḍõ
vocative	अंडे aṇḍe	अंडो aṇḍo

Alternative forms

• अण्डा (aṇḍā)

Derived terms

• अंडे का शहज़ादा (aṇḍe kā śahzādā)

Related terms

• अंडकोष (aṇḍkoṣ)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “अंडा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “āṇḍá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press