अपराधी

Hindi

Etymology

From Old Hindi अपराधी (aparādhī), equivalent to अपराध (aprādh, “crime, offence”) +‎ -ई (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əp.ɾɑː.d̪ʱiː/, [ɐp.ɾäː.d̪ʱiː]

Noun

अपराधी • (aprādhī) m

1. criminal; sinner

   Synonym: मुजरिम (mujrim)

References

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “अपराधी”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

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Old Hindi

Noun

अपराधी (aparādhī) m

1. sinner
   • c. 1420, Kabīr 221.0:

     माधौ मै ऐसा अपराधी, तेरी भगति होत नहीं साधी

     mādhau mai aisā aparādhī, terī bhagati hota nahīṃ sādhī

Descendants

• Hindi: अपराधी (aprādhī)

References

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC