دانت

Arabic

Verb

دَانَتْ • (dānat) (form I) /daː.nat/

  1. third-person feminine singular past active of دَانَ (dāna)

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi دانت (dā̃t /⁠dānt⁠/) / داند (dā̃d /⁠dānd⁠/) / دند (/⁠dand⁠/) / دنت (/⁠dant⁠/),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀁𑀢 (daṃta), from Sanskrit दन्त (dánta),[2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hdántas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt-o-s, thematized from *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of دَنْدَان (dandān).

Pronunciation

Noun

دان٘ت • (dā̃t) m (Hindi spelling दाँत)

  1. (anatomy) tooth
  2. (anatomy) tusk

References

  1. ^ “دانت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dánta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 352

Further reading

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