دادی

Urdu

Etymology

Feminine of دادا (dādā), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀤𑀸𑀤𑁆𑀤- (*dādda-).[1] First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi دادی (dādī)ِ.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɑː.d̪iː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: دا‧دی

Noun

دادی • (dādī) f (masculine دادا (dādā), Hindi spelling दादी)

  1. paternal grandmother
  2. (polite) an old woman

Declension

Declension of دادی
singular plural
direct دادی (dādī) دادِیاں (dādiyā̃)
oblique دادی (dādī) دادِیوں (dādiyō̃)
vocative دادی (dādī) دادِیو (dādiyō)

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*dādda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 359
  2. ^ “دادی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

More information
  • “دادی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دادا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 298
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “دادي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 500
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “دادي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 611
  • John Shakespear (1834) “دادی”, 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
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