एहतियात

Hindi

Etymology

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Arabic اِحْتَاطَ (iḥtāṭa)

Arabic اِحْتِيَاط (iḥtiyāṭ)bor.

Classical Persian اِحْتِیَاط (ihtiyāt)bor.

Hindi एहतियात

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِحْتِیَاط (ihtiyāt), borrowed from Arabic اِحْتِيَاط (iḥtiyāṭ), from اِحْتَاطَ (iḥtāṭa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /eːɦ.t̪ɪ.jɑːt̪/, [eːʱ.t̪i.jäːt̪]

Noun

एहतियात • (ehtiyāt) f (Urdu spelling احتیاط)

1. caution, care

   Synonym: सावधानी (sāvdhānī)

2. precaution (instance of taking precautions)

Declension

Declension of एहतियात (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	एहतियात ehtiyāt	एहतियातें ehtiyātẽ
oblique	एहतियात ehtiyāt	एहतियातों ehtiyātõ
vocative	एहतियात ehtiyāt	एहतियातो ehtiyāto

Derived terms

• ऐहतियातन (aihtiyātan)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “एहतियात”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press