दादा

See also: दीदी, दिदी, दादी, and द्द

Hindi

Etymology

McGregor inferred it to be from Old Indo-Aryan dādda-. Platts gives it as from the Sanskrit तात (tāta) + कः (kaḥ).

Noun

दादा • (dādā) m

1. paternal grandfather
2. respectful address for an older man
3. (colloquial, pejorative): bully

Related terms

• दादागिरी (dādāgirī)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दादा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “दादा”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.