बोतल

Hindi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin buttis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -culus

Late Latin butticula

Old French boteille

French bouteillebor.

Portuguese botelhabor.

Hindi बोतल (botal)

Borrowed from Portuguese botelha.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /boː.t̪əl/, [boː.t̪ɐl]

Noun

बोतल • (botal) f (Urdu spelling بوتَل)

1. bottle
   • 1995, “बरसात के मौसम में [barsāt ke mausam mẽ]”, Sudarshan Faakir (lyrics):

     बरसात के मौसम में
     तन्हाई के आलम में
     मैं घर से निकल आया
     बोतल भी उठा लाया

     barsāt ke mausam mẽ
     tanhāī ke ālam mẽ
     ma͠i ghar se nikal āyā
     botal bhī uṭhā lāyā

     In the rainy weather
     In a lonely state
     I came out of my house
     Carrying a bottle with me

Declension

Declension of बोतल (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बोतल botal	बोतलें botalẽ
oblique	बोतल botal	बोतलों botalõ
vocative	बोतल botal	बोतलो botalo

Descendants

• → Dari: بوتل (bōtal)

Further reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बोतल”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3573
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बोतल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 750
• “बोतल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.