ناریل
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi ناریل (naryl) (c. 1611),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀭𑀺𑀏𑀮 (ṇāriela), from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela), of Dravidian origin.[2] Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Classical Persian نَارْگِیلَه (nārgīla).
Cognate with Gujarati નારિયળ (nāriyaḷ), Marathi नारळ (nāraḷ), Punjabi ਨਾਰੀਅਲ (nārīala), and Sindhi ناريلُ (nārelu).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nɑː.ɾɪ.jəl/
- Rhymes: -əl
- Hyphenation: نَا‧رِ‧یَل
Noun
نَارِیَل • (nāriyal) m (Hindi spelling नारियल)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | نَارِیَل (nāriyal) | نَارِیَل (nāriyal) |
| oblique | نَارِیَل (nāriyal) | نَارِیَلوں (nāriyalõ) |
| vocative | نَارِیَل (nāriyal) | نَارِیَلو (nāriyalo) |
Descendants
- → Pashto: ناريل (nāryāl)
References
Further reading
- “ناریل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناريل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ناريِل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “ناریل”, 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
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ناریل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.