गाड़ी

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit गड्डी (gaḍḍī) गड्ड (gaḍḍa). See there for more.

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː.ɽiː/, [ɡäː.ɽiː]
Rhymes: -ɑː.ɽiː

Noun

गाड़ी • (gāṛī) f (Urdu spelling گاڑی)

car, truck, bus
- 1983, “Mama Miya Pom Pom”, in Indeevar (lyrics), Bappi Lahiri (music), Justice Chaudhury‎^[1], performed by Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar:
  प्यार की गाड़ी, डेट चलाओ!
  pyār kī gāṛī, ḍeṭ calāo!
  Let's go on a date with the car of love!
carriage
cart
train
rail car

Declension

Declension of *गाड़ी* (fem ī-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	गाड़ी gāṛī	गाड़ियाँ gāṛiyā̃
oblique	गाड़ी gāṛī	गाड़ियों gāṛiyõ
vocative	गाड़ी gāṛī	गाड़ियो gāṛiyo

Hypernyms

Hypernyms: यान (yān), वाहन (vāhan)

Derived terms

पालकी गाड़ी (pālkī gāṛī)

Descendants

→ Dhivehi: ގާޑިޔާ (gāḍiyā)
→ English: gharry
→ Gulf Arabic: قاري (gāri, “bicycle”), گاري
- → Swahili: gari
  - → Chichewa: galimoto
  - → Kamba: ngali
  - → Kikuyu: ngari
  - → Maore Comorian: gari
  - → Meru: ngari
→ Kannada: ಗಾಡಿ (gāḍi)
→ Pashto: ګاډی (gāḍay)
→ Persian: گاری (gâri)

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गाड़ी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Platts, John T. (1884) “गाड़ी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 892
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gāḍḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press