मिस्री

Borrowed from Classical Persian مصری (misrī), from Arabic مِصْرِيّ (miṣriyy). By surface analysis, मिस्र (misra, “Egypt”) +‎ -ई (-ī). The third part of speech sense is named for Egyptian exports of sugar in the pre-modern era.

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /mɪs.ɾiː/

मिस्री • (misrī) (Urdu spelling مِصری)

1. Egyptian

मिस्री • (misrī) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling مِصری)

1. an Egyptian

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

मिस्री • (misrī) f (Urdu spelling مِصری)

1. crystal sugar (usually eaten as candy)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “मिस्री”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press