दादी

See also: दीदी, दिदी, दादा, and द्द

Hindi

Etymology

McGregor inferred it to be from Proto-Indo-Aryan [Term?] (*dādda-). Platts gives it as from the Sanskrit तात (tāta) + -इका (-ikā).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.d̪iː/, [d̪äː.d̪iː]

Noun

दादी • (dādī) f (masculine दादा)

1. paternal grandmother

Related terms

• नानी (nānī)

References

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