چابی

See also: چاٻی and باجی

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese chave, from Latin clāvis.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.biː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: چا‧بی

Noun

چابی • (cābī) f (Hindi spelling चाबी)

  1. key (object for opening and closing a lock)
    Synonym: تالی (tālī)

Declension

Declension of چابی
singular plural
direct چابی (cābī) چابِیاں (cābiyā̃)
oblique چابی (cābī) چابِیوں (cābiyō̃)
vocative چابی (cābī) چابِیو (cābiyō)

Descendants

  • → Marwari: चाबी (cābī)
  • → Nepali: चाबी (cābī)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਬੀ (cābī)
    Shahmukhi script: چابی (cābī)

Further reading

  • “چابی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “چابی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چابی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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