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Pronunciation edit

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɪɦ.liː/, [d̪eɦ.liː]
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  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /d̪e.liː/, /d̪ɛ.liː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1 edit

From Sanskrit देहली (dehalī, threshold)

Noun edit

دِہْلی (dihlīf (Hindi spelling देहली)

  1. threshold, doorstep
    Synonyms: دہلیز (dahlīz), چوکھٹ (caukhaṭ)
Declension edit
Declension of دہلی
singularplural
directدہلی (dihlī)دہلیاں (dihliyā̃)
obliqueدہلی (dihlī)دہلیوں (dihliyō̃)
vocativeدہلی (dihlī)دہلیو (dihliyō)

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian دهلی (dihlī), of uncertain origin. See दिल्ली (dillī) for further details.

Proper noun edit

دِہْلی (dihlīf (Hindi spelling देहली)

  1. Delhi (a city in India, containing the national capital New Delhi)
    Synonym: دِلّی (dillī)
    • 2021 October 23, “دہلی سے ملحق گڑگاؤں میں پھر سے جمعے کی نماز کے خلاف مظاہرہ اور جے شری رام کے نعرے [Demonstrations against Friday prayers, again, in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi and slogans of Jai Shri Ram]”, in BBC News Urdu[1]:
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Further reading edit

  • دہلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēhalī́”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press