لوری
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French lori, itself from Malay luri.
Noun
لوری • (lori, lory)
- lorikeet, lory, any of various brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia
Descendants
- Turkish: lori
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lori”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀭 (lora), 𑀮𑁄𑀮 (lola) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit लोल (lola).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /loː.ɾiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Noun
لوری • (lorī) f (Hindi spelling लोरी)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | لوری (lorī) | لورِیاں (loriyā̃) |
| oblique | لوری (lorī) | لورِیوں (loriyō̃) |
| vocative | لوری (lorī) | لورِیو (loriyō) |
References
- “لوری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “لوری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*lōḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 649