Prakrit
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *h₁erdʰe
Proto-Indo-European *h₁érdʰ-o-s
Prakrit 𑀅𑀤𑁆𑀥
Inherited from Sanskrit अर्ध (ardha).
Adjective
𑀅𑀤𑁆𑀥 (addha) (Devanagari अद्ध)
- a half
Declension
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Descendants
- Central Indo-Aryan:
- Awadhi: आधा (ādhā)
- Old Hindi: आध (ādha), आधा (ādhā), अध (adha), अरध (aradha)
- Hindustani:
- Hindi: आधा (ādhā)
- Urdu: آدھا (ādhā)
- Eastern Indo-Aryan:
- Assamese: আধা (adha), আধ (adh)
- Bengali: আধা (adha), আধ (adh)
- Bihari: आधा (ādhā)
- Bhojpuri: आधा (ādhā)
- Maithili: आध (ādh)
- Odia: ଅଧ (adha), ଅଧା (adhā), ଆଡ଼ (āṛa)
- Sylheti: ꠀꠗꠣ (àdá)
- Insular Indo-Aryan:
- Northern Indo-Aryan:
- Central Pahari:
- Kumaoni: आद् (ād), आधो (ādho)
- Eastern Pahari:
- Nepali: आधा (ādhā), अध (adh)
- Western Pahari:
- Bhadrawahi: अद्धू (addhū), अद्दो (addo), अद्धा (addhā)
- Northwestern Indo-Aryan:
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi script: ਅੱਧ (addha)
- Shahmukhi script: اَدّھَ (addha)
- Sindhi: adhu
- Arabic script: اَڌُ (adhu)
- Devanagari script: अधु
- Southern Indo-Aryan:
- Konkani:
- Devanagari script: आदो (ādo)
- Latin script: ado
- Kannada script: ಆದೊ (ādo)
- Marathi: अर्धे (ardhe)
- Western Indo-Aryan:
- Old Gujarati: अरधउं (aradhaüṃ)
- Gujarati: અર્ધું (ardhũ), અડધું (aḍadhũ)
- Marwari: अरधौ (ardhau)
- → Telugu: అడ్డ (aḍḍa)
References
- Sheth, Hargovind Das T[rikamcand] (1923–1928), “अद्ध”, in पाइअ-सद्द-महण्णवो [pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo, Ocean of Prakrit words] (in Hindi), Calcutta: [Published by the Author].
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “addha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press