कारतूस

Hindi

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from French cartouche. Compare Portuguese cartucho.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kɑːɾ.t̪uːs/, [käːɾ.t̪uːs]

Noun

कारतूस • (kārtūs) m (Urdu spelling کارتوس)

1. (firearms) cartridge

Declension

Declension of कारतूस (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	कारतूस kārtūs	कारतूस kārtūs
oblique	कारतूस kārtūs	कारतूसों kārtūsõ
vocative	कारतूस kārtūs	कारतूसो kārtūso

Descendants

• → Kashmiri:

  Devanagari script: कारतूस (kārtūs)

  Arabic script: کارتوٗس (kārtūs)

• → Pashto: کارْتُوس (kārtūs)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਾਰਤੂਸ (kārtūs)

  Shahmukhi script: کارْتُوس (kārtūs)

References

• Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN, page 82, column 2
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कारतूस”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press