गीध

Hindi

Etymology

Variant of गृध्र (gŕdhra) “vulture” from similar bald head and long neck, annotated in a painting between 1624-5 by Ustad Mansur.[1] Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गृध्र (gṛ́dhra); doublet of गिद्ध (giddh), a tadbhava.

Noun

गीध • (gīdh) ?

  1. (rare) dodo

References

  1. ^ Richon, Emmanuel; Winters, Ria (2 April 2016), “The intercultural dodo: a drawing from the School of Bundi, Rājasthān”, in Historical Biology‎[1], volume 28, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 415–422
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