تایا

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi تایا (taya /⁠tāyā⁠/) (c. 1435),[1] from Sanskrit *तातिय (*tātiya) / तात्य (tātyá).[2]

Cognate with Punjabi تایْا (tāyā) / ਤਾਇਆ (tāiā).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɑː.jɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Hyphenation: تَا‧یَا

Noun

تَایا • (tāyā) m (feminine تَائِی (tāī), Hindi spelling ताया)

  1. paternal uncle (father's elder brother)

Declension

Declension of تایا
singular plural
direct تایا (tāyā) تائے (tāye)
oblique تائے (tāye) تائوں (tāyõ)
vocative تائے (tāye) تائو (tāyo)

References

  1. ^ “تایا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*tātiya”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

  • “تایا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “تایا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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