رخصتی
Urdu
Etymology
From رُخْصَت (ruxsat, “leave; permission”) + ـی (-ī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɾʊx.sə.t̪iː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: رُخْ‧صَ‧تی
Adjective
رُخْصَتی • (ruxsatī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling रुख़्सती)
Noun
رُخْصَتی • (ruxsatī) f (Hindi spelling रुख़्सती)
- farewell; depart; departure
- money or present given to someone prior to their departure
- (Marriage) a wedding ceremony in which the bride is sent away to her husband's home, as the final ceremony
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | رخصتی (ruxsatī) | رخصتِیاں (ruxsatiyā̃) |
| oblique | رخصتی (ruxsatī) | رخصتِیوں (ruxsatiyō̃) |
| vocative | رخصتی (ruxsatī) | رخصتِیو (ruxsatiyō) |
Further reading
- “رخصتی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “رخصتی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رخصت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 340
- Platts, John T. (1884) “رخصتي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 490
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “رخصتي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 699
- John Shakespear (1834) “رخصتی”, 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