آدمی

آدمی

See also: آدمي‎

Old Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی‎ (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ‎ (ʾādamiyy, “human”).

Noun

آدَمی (ādamī) m (Gurmukhi ਆਦਮੀ‎)

1. man, human being
2. servant

Descendants

• Punjabi: ādmī

  Gurmukhi: ਆਦਮੀ

  Shahmukhi: آدْمِی‎

References

• Christopher Shackle (2011), “ਆਦਮੀ”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 24.
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2023

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی‎ (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ‎ (ʾādamiyy, “human”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːd̪.miː/
• Hyphenation: آدْ‧مِی
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

آدْمِی • (ādmī) m (Hindi spelling आदमी)

1. (chiefly) man

   Synonyms: بَنْدَہ‎ (banda), مَرْد‎ (mard)

2. a human being
3. individual, person

Declension

Declension of آدمی
	singular	plural
direct	آدْمِی‎ (ādmī)	آدْمِی‎ (ādmī)
oblique	آدْمِی‎ (ādmī)	آدْمِیوں‎ (ādmiyō̃)
vocative	آدْمِی‎ (ādmī)	آدْمِیو‎ (ādmiyō)

Further reading

• “آدمی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آدمي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 33
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آدمی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 7
• “آدمی”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.