سکھی

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /sə.kʰiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

سَکھی • (sakhī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਖੀ)

1. female friend, companion

2=sakh

Corrupted from Classical Persian سخی (saxī), itself from Arabic سَخِي (saḵī).

سَکھی • (sakhī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਖੀ)

1. generous, benevolent

Typically used to describe females or feminine nouns.

• “سکھی”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سخی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

First attested in c. 1625 as Middle Hindi سکھی (sakhī),^[1] borrowed from Sanskrit सखी (sakhī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.kʰiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: سَ‧کھی

سَکھی • (sakhī) f (Hindi spelling सखी)

1. friend, confidant (of a woman)

   Synonym: سَہیلی (sahelī)

• “سکھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سکھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سکهي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 666