دہلی

Urdu

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɪɦ.liː/, [d̪eɦ.liː]
  • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /d̪e.liː/, /d̪ɛ.liː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit देहली (dehalī, threshold)

Noun

دِہْلی • (dihlīf (Hindi spelling देहली)

  1. threshold, doorstep
    Synonyms: دہلیز (dahlīz), چوکھٹ (caukhaṭ)
Declension
Declension of دہلی
singular plural
direct دہلی (dihlī) دہلِیاں (dihliyā̃)
oblique دہلی (dihlī) دہلِیوں (dihliyō̃)
vocative دہلی (dihlī) دہلِیو (dihliyō)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian دهلی (dihlī), of uncertain origin. See दिल्ली (dillī) for further details.

Proper noun

دِہْلی • (dihlīf (Hindi spelling देहली)

  1. Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)
    Synonym: دِلّی (dillī)
    • 2021 October 23, “دہلی سے ملحق گڑگاؤں میں پھر سے جمعے کی نماز کے خلاف مظاہرہ اور جے شری رام کے نعرے [Demonstrations against Friday prayers, again, in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi and slogans of Jai Shri Ram]”, in BBC News Urdu[1]:
Descendants
See also
union territories of India: یُونِیَن عِلاقے (yūniyan 'ilāqe)edit

Further reading

  • دہلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēhalī́”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press