ناتال

Sindhi

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
    Proto-Italic *gnātos
    Latin gnātus
    Latin nātus
    Proto-Italic *-ālis
    Latin -ālis
    Latin nātālis
    Old Galician-Portuguese Natal
    Portuguese Natalbor.
    Gujarati નાતાલ (nātāl)bor.?
    Portuguese Natalbor.
    Konkani नाताळ (nātāḷ)bor.?
    Sindhi ناتالُ

    Derived from Portuguese Natal possibly via Gujarati નાતાલ (nātāl), Konkani नाताळ (nātāḷ).

    Proper noun

    ناتالُ • (nātālu) m (Devanagari नातालु)

    1. Christmas

    Further reading

    • Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN: “The Portuguese influence on it [Sindhi] is, it appears, almost wholly mediate and very limited if we are to judge from the dictionaries of the language hitherto published.”
    • Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “ناتالُ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
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