तबाशीर
Hindi
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit तवक्षीर (tavakṣīra).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /t̪ə.bɑː.ʃiːɾ/, [t̪ə.bäː.ʃiːɾ]
Noun
तबाशीर • (tabāśīr) m (Urdu spelling تباشیر)
- tabasheer (substance found in bamboo)
- Synonym: बंसलोचन (banslocan)
Declension
Declension of तबाशीर (masc cons-stem)
singular | plural | |
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direct | तबाशीर tabāśīr | तबाशीर tabāśīr |
oblique | तबाशीर tabāśīr | तबाशीरों tabāśīrõ |
vocative | तबाशीर tabāśīr | तबाशीरो tabāśīro |
Descendants
- Hindi: तबाशीर (tabāśīr, “tabasheer”)
- → English: tabasheer
- → Persian: تباشیر (tebāšīr, “chalk, plaster, clay; bamboo sugar”)
- → Arabic: طَبْشُورَة (ṭabšūra, “chalk”)
- → Ottoman Turkish: تباشیر (tebeşir, “chalk”)
- → Greek: τεμπεσίρι (tempesíri, “chalk; act of buying on credit”)
- → Romanian: tibișir (“chalk for writing”)
References
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “तबाशीर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha