دہائی

From دَہ (da, “ten”) +‎ ـَائی (-āī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.ɦɑː.iː/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /d̪e.ɦɑː.iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: دَ‧ہا‧ءِی

دَہائی • (dahāī) f (Hindi spelling दहाई)

1. a decade

   Synonym: دَشَک (daśak)

2. (arithmetic) unit of ten; tens; decade
3. increments or multiplication of ten

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• “دہائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دہائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دہائی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دہائی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “دہائی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC