पोशीदगी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پوشِیدَگِی (pōšīdagī). By surface analysis, पोशीदा (pośīdā) +‎ -गी (-gī). First attested in c. 1799 as Middle Hindi پوشِیدَگِی (pvśydgy).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /poː.ʃiːd̪.ɡiː/
• Hyphenation: पो‧शीद‧गी
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

पोशीदगी • (pośīdgī) f (Urdu spelling پوشِیدَگِی) (rare)

1. (rare) secrecy, hiddenness, concealment

   Synonym: गुप्तता (guptatā)

   • 1978, Jainendra Kumar, मेरे भटकाव [mere bhaṭkāv]‎^[1], Purvodaya Prakashan, →LCCN, page 34:

     असल में क्रान्तिकारी आन्दोलन के साथ एक पोशीदगी का भाव रहता था । इस पोशीदगी के आलम में, पराक्रम के स्रोत में भय भी रहता है ।

     asal mẽ krāntikārī āndolan ke sāth ek pośīdgī kā bhāv rahtā thā . is pośīdgī ke ālam mẽ, parākram ke srot mẽ bhay bhī rahtā hai .

     In reality, there was a sense of secrecy associated with the revolutionary movement. In this state of secrecy, there is also fear in the source of valour.

Declension

Declension of पोशीदगी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पोशीदगी pośīdgī	पोशीदगियाँ pośīdgiyā̃
oblique	पोशीदगी pośīdgī	पोशीदगियों pośīdgiyõ
vocative	पोशीदगी pośīdgī	पोशीदगियो pośīdgiyo

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “पोशीदगी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “पोशीदगी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3118
• “पोशीदगी”, in Hindwi Dictionary [including the languages of Hindi region] (in Hindi), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026
• “पोशीदगी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• “پوشِیدَگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008), “pośīdagī”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 695.