डिब्बा

• डब्बा (ḍabbā)

Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀟𑀩𑁆𑀩 (*ḍabba) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-) without cluster simplification of unknown substrate origin. Compare Marathi डबा (ḍabā), Assamese ডবা (doba), Punjabi ਡੱਬਾ (ḍabbā).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɖɪb.bɑː/, [ɖɪb̚.bäː]

डिब्बा • (ḍibbā) m (female equivalent डिब्बी, Urdu spelling ڈِبّہ)

1. box, container
   1. compartment (of a train)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “डिब्बा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 421
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*ḍabba¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press