چابی

Borrowed from Urdu چَابِی (cābī).

• Tone class: LH
• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕàːbíː/

چابی (čābī) f

1. key

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “čābī”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[1], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 82

• چابھی (cābhī)

Borrowed from Portuguese chave.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.biː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: چا‧بی

چابی • (cābī) f

1. key (object for opening and closing a lock)

   Synonym: تالی (tālī)

• تالا (tālā)

• → Marwari: चाबी (cābī)
• → Nepali: चाबी (cābī)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਬੀ (cābī)

  Shahmukhi script: چابی (cābī)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: چاٻِي (cāḇī)

  Devanagari script: चाॿी

• “چابی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چابی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چابی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.