हथौड़ा

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit *हत्थऊड (hatthaūḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta, “hand”) +‎ कूट (kūṭa, “horn”).

Cognates

Cognate with Punjabi ਹਥੌੜਾ (hathauṛā) / ہَتھَوڑَا (hathauṛā), Gujarati હથોડો (hathoḍo), Marathi हातोडा (hātoḍā), Assamese হাতুৰী (haturi), Bengali হাতুড়ী (hatuṛi).

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦə.t̪ʰɔː.ɽɑː/, [ɦɐ.t̪ʰɔː.ɽäː]

Noun

हथौड़ा • (hathauṛā) m (Urdu spelling ہتھوڑا)

hammer

Declension

Declension of *हथौड़ा* (masc ā-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	हथौड़ा hathauṛā	हथौड़े hathauṛe
oblique	हथौड़े hathauṛe	हथौड़ों hathauṛõ
vocative	हथौड़े hathauṛe	हथौड़ो hathauṛo

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “hathauṛā”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hastakūṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811