اسیری

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسِیرِی (asīrī). By surface analysis, اَسِیر (asīr) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ə.siː.ɾiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: اَ‧سِی‧رِی

Noun

اَسِیری • (asīrīf (Hindi spelling असीरी)

  1. captivity, capture, imprisonment

Declension

Declension of اسیری
singular plural
direct اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیرِیاں (asīriyā̃)
oblique اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیرِیوں (asīriyō̃)
vocative اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیرِیو (asīriyō)

Further reading

  • اسیری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • اسیری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اسير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “اسيري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 55
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    John Shakespear (1834) “اسیري”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC