ڈھائی

ڈھائِی • (ḍhā'ī)

1. inflection of ڈھاݨا (ḍhāṇā):
   1. feminine singular perfective participle
   2. feminine singular indicative perfective

Inherited from Old Hindi अढाई (aḍhāī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀟𑁆𑀠𑀸𑀇𑀬 (aḍḍhāiya), from Sanskrit अर्धतृतीय (ardhatṛtīya, “[two full ones and] the half of the third”). Cognate with Assamese আঢ়ৈ (arhoi), Bengali আড়াই (aṛai), Gujarati અઢી (aḍhī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɖʱɑː.iː/

ڈھائی • (ḍhāī) (Hindi spelling ढाई)

1. two and a half

   ڈھائِی لاکھ رُوپَیے

   ḍhāī lākh rupae

   two-hundred and fifty thousand rupees

   (literally, “two and a half lakh rupees”)

2. half past two

• دیڑھ (deṛh)
• ساڑھے (sāṛhe)

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• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ڈهائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 330
• “ڈھائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “ڐهاٴي”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 934
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