चपटी

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit *चर्पट्ट (*carpaṭṭa), चर्पट (carpaṭa, “palm; lying flat”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəp.ʈiː/, [t͡ʃɐp.ʈiː]

Noun

चपटी • (capṭī) f (Urdu spelling چپٹی)

1. (anatomy) palm

   Synonyms: ताली (tālī), हथेली (hathelī), थपड़ी (thapṛī)

2. a kind of tick

   Hypernym: किलनी (kilnī)

Declension

Declension of चपटी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	चपटी capṭī	चपटियाँ capṭiyā̃
oblique	चपटी capṭī	चपटियों capṭiyõ
vocative	चपटी capṭī	चपटियो capṭiyo

References

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