ناتال

Sindhi

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālis
Old Galician-Portuguese Natal
Portuguese Natalbor.
Gujarati નાતાલ (nātāl)bor.?
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Portuguese Natalbor.
Konkani नाताळ (nātāḷ)bor.?
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Portuguese Natalbor.
Marathi नाताळ (nātāḷ)bor.?
Sindhi ناتالُ

    From Portuguese Natal likely via Western Indo-Aryan and Southern Indo-Aryan.

    Proper noun

    ناتالُ • (nātālu) m (Devanagari नातालु)

    1. Christmas
      Synonym: ڪْرِسْمَس (krismas) (more common)

    Declension

    Declension of ناتالُ (masc u-stem)
    singular plural
    nominative ناتالُ
    nātālu     		ناتالَ
    nātāla
    oblique ناتالَ
    nātāla     		ناتالَنِ
    nātālani
    vocative ناتالَ
    nātāla     		ناتالو
    nātālo

    Further reading

    • Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “ناتالُ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
    • Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN: “The Portuguese influence on it [Sindhi] is, it appears, almost wholly mediate and very limited if we are to judge from the dictionaries of the language hitherto published.”
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