बाग़बानी

• बागबानी (bāgbānī) — nuqtaless

Borrowed from Classical Persian باغبانی (bāġbānī). By surface analysis, बाग़बान (bāġbān) +‎ -ई (-ī).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /bɑːɣ.bɑː.niː/, [bäːɣ.bäː.niː], /bɑːɡ.bɑː.niː/, [bäːɡ.bäː.niː]
• Hyphenation: बाग़‧बा‧नी

बाग़बानी • (bāġbānī) f (Urdu spelling بَاغْبَانِی)

1. gardening

   मैं अपने घर के पीछे की जगह में बाग़बानी करता हूँ।

   ma͠i apne ghar ke pīche kī jagah mẽ bāġbānī kartā hū̃.

   I do gardening in the space behind my house.

• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “बाग़”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 510
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “बागबानी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3439
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “बाग़”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 720
• Platts, John T. (1884), “bāg̠-bān ī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 123
• “बाग़बानी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.