"دائی" meaning in Urdu

See دائی in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /d̪ɑː.iː/ [Standard, Urdu]
Rhymes: -iː Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian دَایَه (dāya). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ur|fa-cls|دَایَه}} Borrowed from Classical Persian دَایَه (dāya) Head templates: {{ur-noun|g=f|head=دائِی|hi=दाई}} دائِی • (dāī) f (Hindi spelling दाई) Inflection templates: {{ur-decl-noun|دائی|dāī|دائِیاں|dāiyā̃|دائی|dāī|دائِیوں|dāiyō̃|دائی|dāī|دائِیو|dāiyō}} Forms: دائِی [canonical], dāī [romanization], दाई [Hindi], no-table-tags [table-tags], دائی [direct, singular], دائِیاں [direct, plural], دائی [oblique, singular], دائِیوں [oblique, plural], دائی [singular, vocative], دائِیو [plural, vocative]
  1. midwife; nurse
    Sense id: en-دائی-ur-noun-ETlVPk9P Categories (other): Urdu nouns with declension Disambiguation of Urdu nouns with declension: 33 19 16 16 16
  2. wet-nurse
    Sense id: en-دائی-ur-noun-GX2Gz4y~ Categories (other): Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:R:ur:Shakespear, Urdu entries with incorrect language header, Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Urdu terms with redundant transliterations, Occupations Disambiguation of Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:R:ur:Shakespear: 20 22 36 4 13 4 Disambiguation of Urdu entries with incorrect language header: 15 72 3 7 3 Disambiguation of Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 23 55 5 12 5 Disambiguation of Urdu terms with redundant transliterations: 22 61 6 7 6 Disambiguation of Occupations: 11 55 7 21 7
  3. maidservant
    Sense id: en-دائی-ur-noun-7c88xm9I
  4. (figuratively) confidant; insider Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-دائی-ur-noun-WqAUfqb-
  5. a kid's game
    Sense id: en-دائی-ur-noun-aKYUgp6w Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Female Disambiguation of Female: 0 0 0 0 0
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    },
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      "form": "dāī",
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      ]
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "دائِیاں",
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      "tags": [
        "direct",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "midwife; nurse"
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        "(figuratively) confidant; insider"
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "a kid's game"
      ],
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    }
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      "ipa": "/d̪ɑː.iː/",
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    }
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}
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      "form": "दाई",
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      "source": "declension",
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    },
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      "form": "دائی",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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      ],
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        "wet-nurse"
      ],
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        ]
      ]
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    }
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}

Download raw JSONL data for دائی meaning in Urdu (2.8kB)

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