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पुतली

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See also: पतला, पतलू, पाताल, and पीतल

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi پتلی (ptly /⁠putlī⁠/) (c. 1625),^[1] from Old Hindi पुतरी (putarī), from Apabhramsa पुत्तलिय (puttaliya), from Prakrit पुत्तलिआ (puttaliā), from पुत्त (putta) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮- (-la-) + -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-).^[2]. By surface analysis, पुतला (putlā) +‎ -ई (-ī).

Pronunciation

(Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /pʊt̪.liː/
Hyphenation: पुत‧ली
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

पुतली • (putlī) f (male equivalent पुतला, Urdu spelling پُتْلِی)^[3]

doll, puppet
Synonym: गुड़िया (guṛiyā)

Declension

Declension of *पुतली* (fem ī-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	पुतली putlī	पुतलियाँ putliyā̃
oblique	पुतली putlī	पुतलियों putliyõ
vocative	पुतली putlī	पुतलियो putliyo

Derived terms

कठपुतली (kaṭhputlī)

References

More information

^ “پتلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “putrala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 468: “H. pū̆tlā m., °lī f. 'doll'”
^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “पुतली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 636

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