गांधी

See also: गंध and गधा

Hindi

Inherited from Apabhramsa गंधीय (gaṃdhīya), from Prakrit गंधिअ (gaṃdhia), from Sanskrit गान्धिक (gāndhika, “parfumier”).^[1] First attested in c. 1654^[2] as Middle Hindi گاندھی (gandhy /⁠gāndhī⁠/).

गांधी • (gāndhī) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling گان٘دِھی)^[3]

a surname, equivalent to English Gandhi, famously held by:
2. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), for whom it is used mononymously
  Synonyms: गांधीजी (gāndhījī), देशपितृ (deśpitŕ), बापू (bāpū)
3. Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
4. Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

More information

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “gāndhika”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 221: “H. gandhī m.”
^ “گاندھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “गाँधी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 262