आइमाई

Nepali

Etymology

Cognate with Assamese আই (ai), Bengali আঈ (ai), Gujarati આઈ (āī), Marathi आई (āī).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [äi̯mäi̯]
  • Phonetic Devanagari: आइमाइ

Noun

आइमाई • (āimāī)

  1. woman, women
    Synonyms: नारी (nārī), महिला (mahilā), स्त्री (strī)
  2. wife
    Synonyms: स्वास्नी (svāsnī), बुढी (buḍhī)

References

  • “आइमाई”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎[1], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
  • Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993), “आइमाई”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “āī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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