नीलाम

Hindi

Etymology

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Arabic أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama)

Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām)bor.

Portuguese leilãobor.

Hindi नीलाम

Borrowed from Portuguese leilão.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /niː.lɑːm/, [niː.lä̃ːm]

Noun

नीलाम • (nīlām) m (Urdu spelling نیلام)

1. auction (a public event where goods are sold through bidding)

Declension

Declension of नीलाम (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	नीलाम nīlām	नीलाम nīlām
oblique	नीलाम nīlām	नीलामों nīlāmõ
vocative	नीलाम nīlām	नीलामो nīlāmo

Derived terms

• नीलामकर्ता (nīlāmkartā, “auctioneer”)
• नीलाम करना (nīlām karnā, “to auction, sell by auction”)
• नीलामी (nīlāmī, “auctionable, auction”)

Descendants

• → Burmese: လေလံ (lelam)
• → Dari: لِیلَام (līlām)
• → Lao: ເລຫຼັງ (lē lang)
• → Pashto: ليلام (lilām)
• → Punjabi: ਨਿਲਾਮ (nilām), ਨਿਲਾਮੀ (nilāmī)

References

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