آدرنیہ

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit आदरणीय (ādaraṇīya).

Pronunciation

Adjective

آدَرْنِیَہ • (ādarniya) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling आदरणीय) (chiefly India or rare)

  1. respected, respectable
  2. venerable

Further reading

  • آدرنیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “آدرنيه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 32