چمبیلی
Urdu
Alternative forms
- چَمیلی (camelī), چَن٘بیلی (cambelī)
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit *चम्पवेल्लि (*campavelli). Cognate with Gujarati ચંબેલી (cambelī), Marathi चमेली (camelī), Punjabi چَمبیلی / ਚੰਬੇਲੀ (cambelī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəm.beː.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: چَمْ‧بیلی
Noun
چَمْبیلی • (cambelī) f (Hindi spelling चंबेली)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | چَمْبیلی (cambelī) | چَمْبیلِیاں (cambeliyā̃) |
| oblique | چَمْبیلی (cambelī) | چَمْبیلِیوں (cambeliyō̃) |
| vocative | چَمْبیلی (cambelī) | چَمْبیلِیو (cambeliyō) |
Further reading
More information
- “چمبیلی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “چمبیلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چمبیلی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 257
- Platts, John T. (1884) “چمبیلی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 443
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “چمبیلی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 540