"dupatta" meaning in All languages combined

See dupatta on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: dupattas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|दुपट्टा}} Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dupatta (plural dupattas)
  1. (South Asia) A double layer of cloth worn by women as a scarf, veil etc. Wikipedia link: dupatta Tags: South-Asia Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: odhni, dopatta, dooputty, dupata

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for dupatta meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "दुपट्टा"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dupattas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dupatta (plural dupattas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South Asian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee",
          "text": "Her dupatta slipped from her shoulders, as he encircled her waist with one hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 284",
          "text": "Red bangles are stacked all the way to her elbows and her glittering scarlet dupatta is pinned to the high mound of her hair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A double layer of cloth worn by women as a scarf, veil etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-dupatta-en-noun-CWYlH15X",
      "links": [
        [
          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
        [
          "scarf",
          "scarf"
        ],
        [
          "veil",
          "veil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Asia) A double layer of cloth worn by women as a scarf, veil etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "odhni"
        },
        {
          "word": "dopatta"
        },
        {
          "word": "dooputty"
        },
        {
          "word": "dupata"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Asia"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "dupatta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dupatta"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "दुपट्टा"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi दुपट्टा (dupaṭṭā)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dupattas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dupatta (plural dupattas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Hindi",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "South Asian English",
        "en:Clothing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee",
          "text": "Her dupatta slipped from her shoulders, as he encircled her waist with one hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 284",
          "text": "Red bangles are stacked all the way to her elbows and her glittering scarlet dupatta is pinned to the high mound of her hair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A double layer of cloth worn by women as a scarf, veil etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
        [
          "scarf",
          "scarf"
        ],
        [
          "veil",
          "veil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Asia) A double layer of cloth worn by women as a scarf, veil etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Asia"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "dupatta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "odhni"
    },
    {
      "word": "dopatta"
    },
    {
      "word": "dooputty"
    },
    {
      "word": "dupata"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dupatta"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.