दलाल

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). First attested as Old Hindi दलाल (dalāla).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.lɑːl/, [d̪ɐ.läːl]

दलाल • (dalāl) m (Urdu spelling دَلَال)

1. broker, dealer, agent
2. pimp

• दलाली (dalālī)

• → Burmese: ဒလန် (da.lan)
• → English: dalal, dalaal, Dalal

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दलाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 483
• “दलाल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”).

• IPA^(key): /d̪ə.lal/

दलाल • (dalāl) m

1. broker, go-between

• दलाली (dalālī, “brokerage”)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “दलाल”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, page 67
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “दलाल”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 404
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “दलाल”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 1620

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). Compare Old Punjabi ਦਲਾਲੁ (dalālu), Middle Bengali দালাল (dalal).

दलाल (dalāla)

1. broker

• दलाली (dalālī)

• Hindustani: dalāl

  Hindi: दलाल

  • → Burmese: ဒလန် (da.lan)
  • → English: dalal, dalaal, Dalal

  Urdu: دَلَال (dalāl)

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 538