साड़ी

See also: सड़ा, साडी, and साडू

Hindi

साड़ी

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀸𑀟𑀻 (sāḍī), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), from शाट (śāṭa, “strip of cloth”). Doublet of शाल (śāl) through Persian. Compare Punjabi ਸਾੜ੍ਹੀ (sāṛhī) / ساڑھی (sāṛhī), Sindhi ساڙهيِ / साढ़ी, Gujarati સાડી (sāḍī), Marathi साडी (sāḍī), Bengali শাড়ি (śaṛi), Assamese শাৰী (xari), Sylheti ꠢꠣꠠꠤ (haṛi), Malayalam സാരി (sāri).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /sɑː.ɽiː/, [säː.ɽiː]

Noun

साड़ी • (sāṛī) f (Urdu spelling سَاڑِی)

1. sari (traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent)

Declension

Declension of साड़ी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	साड़ी sāṛī	साड़ियाँ sāṛiyā̃
oblique	साड़ी sāṛī	साड़ियों sāṛiyõ
vocative	साड़ी sāṛī	साड़ियो sāṛiyo

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śāṭa¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “sāṛī”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press