तड़ित

Hindi

Alternative forms

• तड़ित् (taṛit), तड़ीत (taṛīt), तड़िता (taṛitā), तरिता (taritā)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तडित् (taḍít).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.ɽɪt̪/, [t̪ɐ.ɽɪt̪]

Noun

तड़ित • (taṛit) f (Urdu spelling تَڑِت)

1. (formal) lightning

   Synonyms: विद्युत् (vidyut), बिजली (bijlī), चपला (caplā)

Declension

Declension of तड़ित (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	तड़ित taṛit	तड़ितें taṛitẽ
oblique	तड़ित taṛit	तड़ितों taṛitõ
vocative	तड़ित taṛit	तड़ितो taṛito

Further reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “taṛita”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “taṛita”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “taṛit”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.