گاندھی

Urdu

Alternative forms

  • گَنْدھی (gandhī)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀁𑀥𑀺𑀅 (gaṃdhia), from Sanskrit गान्धिक (gāndhika).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɡɑːn.d̪ʱiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: گان٘‧دھی

Proper noun

گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling गांधी)

  1. a surname, Gandhi
    1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Noun

گان٘دھی • (gāndhī) m (Hindi spelling गांधी)

  1. perfumer

Declension

Declension of گاندھی
singular plural
direct گان٘دھی (gāndhī) گان٘دھی (gāndhī)
oblique گان٘دھی (gāndhī) گان٘دھِیوں (gāndhiyõ)
vocative گان٘دھی (gāndhī) گان٘دھِیو (gāndhiyo)

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gāndhika”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 221

Further reading

  • “گاندھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “گاندھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “گاندھی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 516
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “گندهی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 918
  • John Shakespear (1834) “گندهي”, 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) “گاندھی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1008
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