تتلی
Urdu
FWOTD – 13 February 2025
Etymology
From Middle Hindi تیتری (tytry /tītrī/)[1] / تتری (titrī),[2] from Prakrit 𑀢𑀺𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀭𑀺 (tittiri), ultimately from Sanskrit तित्तिर (tittirá).[3] Dasa, Qureshi relate it to تِیتَر (tītar, “partridge”).[4][5] Compare Punjabi تِتْلِی (titlī) / ਤਿਤਲੀ (titlī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɪt̪.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: تِت‧لی
Noun
تِتْلی • (titlī) f (Hindi spelling तितली)
- butterfly
- 1972, مِینا کُماری ناز [mīnā kumārī nāz], تنہا چاند [tanhā cānd, Lonely Moon][1], →OCLC, page 89:
- لمحے اُڑتے ہیں کبھی یا تو تتلیوں کی طرح
یا کبھی خوشبوؤں کی مانند چیخ اُٹھتے ہیں- lamhe uṛte ha͠i kabhī yā to titliyõ kī tarh
yā kabhī xośbūõ kī mānind cīx uṭhte ha͠i - Moments fly away, sometimes like butterflies,
or sometimes they scream like fragrances.
- lamhe uṛte ha͠i kabhī yā to titliyõ kī tarh
- (figurative) elegantly-dressed woman
- common rue (Ruta graveolens)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیاں (titliyā̃) |
| oblique | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیوں (titliyō̃) |
| vocative | تِتْلی (titlī) | تِتْلِیو (titliyō) |
References
- ^ “تیتری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ “تتری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tittirá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تتلی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “तितली”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
Further reading
- “تتلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “تتلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “تتلی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tītarī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press