खानि

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit खानि (khāni). Doublet of खान (khān).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kʰɑː.niː/, [kʰäː.niː]

खानि • (khāni) f (Urdu spelling کَھانِی)

1. (rare, formal) a mine

   Synonym: खान (khān)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “खानि”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “खानि”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “खानि”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From the root खन् (khan, “to dig”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kan- (“to dig”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʰɑː.ni/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kʰɑː.n̪i/

खानि • (khāni) stem, f

1. a mine

• खनि (khani)

• → Hindustani: (learned)

  Hindi: खानि (khāni)

  Urdu: کَھانِی (khāni)

• Monier Williams (1899) “खानि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 337.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “khāni”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press