آدمی

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَمِی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

آدَمی (ādamī) m (Gurmukhi ਆਦਮੀ)

1. man, human being
2. servant

• Punjabi: ādmī

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਦਮੀ

  Shahmukhi script: آدْمِی

• Christopher Shackle (2011), “ਆਦਮੀ”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2^nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 24
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2026

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَمِی (ādamī).

آدمی • (âdemî)

1. human
2. humanity

آدمی • (âdemi, âdamı)

1. definite accusative of آدم (âdem, âdam)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “âdemî”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 113a
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “âdemî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 11a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آدمی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 11a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آدمی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 52a

Borrowed from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human being”). By surface analysis, آدم (ādam / âdam) +‎ ـی (-ī / -i, noun forming suffix).

آدمی • (ādamī / âdami) (Tajik spelling одамӣ)

1. Man, mankind, human
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 845:

     آدمی مخفی است در زیر زبان
     این زبان پرده است بر درگاه جان

     ādamī maxfī-st dar zēr-i zabān
     īn zabān parda-st dar dargāh-i jān

     Man is concealed underneath his tongue:
     this tongue is the curtain over the gate of the soul.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “آدمی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَمِی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

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

آدْمی • (ādmī) m (Hindi spelling आदमी)

1. (chiefly) man

   Synonyms: بَنْدَہ (banda), مَرْد (mard), مَنُشیَہ (manuśya), اِنْسان (insān), مانَو (mānau)

2. a human being
3. individual, person

• “آدمی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.