दादा

Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *दाद्द (dādda) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from onomatopoeic nursery reduplication. Cognate with Assamese দাদা (dada), Bengali দাদা (dada), Gujarati દાદો (dādo), Marathi दादा (dādā), Nepali दाइ (dāi), and Punjabi ਦਾਦਾ (dādā). Compare Sanskrit तात (tātá, “a father; a term of affection to a junior or senior”).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.d̪ɑː/, [d̪äː.d̪äː]

दादा • (dādā) m (female equivalent दादी, Urdu spelling دادا)

1. paternal grandfather

   Synonyms: बाबा (bābā), (endearing) दादू (dādū)

2. respectful address for an older man
3. (colloquial, derogatory) bully

• दादागिरी (dādāgirī)

• नाना (nānā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दादा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “दादा”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “dādda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

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• IPA^(key): /d̪a.d̪a/

दादा • (dādā) m (female equivalent दीदी)

1. (family) brother (especially elder)

   Synonym: भाऊ (bhāū)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983), “दादा”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857), “दादा”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911), “दादा”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press