चाबी
Hindi
Alternative forms
- चाभी (cābhī)
Etymology
From Portuguese chave (through a costal intermediary language).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hindi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.biː/, [t͡ʃäː.biː]
Noun
चाबी • (cābī) f (Urdu spelling چابی)
- key
- 1973, “Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho”, in Anand Bakshi (lyrics), Laxmikant Pyarelal (music), Bobby, performed by Lata Mangeshkar and Shailendra Singh:
- सोचो कभी ऐसा हो तो क्या हो हम तुम, एक कमरे में बंद हो और चाबी खो जाये
- soco kabhī aisā ho to kyā ho ham tum, ek kamre mẽ band ho aur cābī kho jāye
- Suppose you and I, locked in a room and the key is lost.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | चाबी cābī |
चाबियाँ cābiyā̃ |
| oblique | चाबी cābī |
चाबियों cābiyõ |
| vocative | चाबी cābī |
चाबियो cābiyo |
Descendants
- → Marwari: चाबी (cābī)
- → Nepali: चाबी (cābī)
- → Pashto: چابي
- → Punjabi: ਚਾਬੀ / چابی (cābī)
- → Sindhi: چاٻِي / चाॿी (cāḇī)
See also
- ताला (tālā)
References
- ^ 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