nadi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nadi"
Catalan
Verb
nadi
- inflection of nadar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Hiri Motu
Noun
nadi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay nadi, from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī, “blood vessel”), नड (naḍá, a species of reed), a corruption of नद (nadá, “river; penis”), Sanskrit नदी (nadī́, “flowing water, river”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *nadíH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nadíH (“river”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ned-ih₂, from *ned- (“thundering, roaring, rushing”) + *-íh₂.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈnadi/ [ˈna.di]
- Rhymes: -adi
- Syllabification: na‧di
Noun
nadi (plural nadi-nadi)
- (anatomy) artery: any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery
- Synonym: arteri
- (anatomy) aorta: the great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system
- Synonym: aorta
- (physiology) pulse: a normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart
- Synonyms: denyut nadi, pulsa
Further reading
- “nadi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Javanese
Romanization
nadi
- romanization of ꦤꦢꦶ
Kabyle
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nadi/
Verb
nadi (verbal noun anadi or tanadit or tanadiwt or tunadin)
- to look for, to seek
- La tetnadi lfal. ― She went to look for a good omen.
- to search, to frisk (a person)
- Nudan-t lxʷeyyan, ufan ɣur-es ddeqs.
- The thieves searched him and found a fairly large sum of money on him.
- to cover (a distance, area)
References
- Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal[1], retrieved 2025
- Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France
Maia
Conjunction
nadi
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀦𑀤𑀺 (Brahmi script)
- नदि (Devanagari script)
- নদি (Bengali script)
- නදි (Sinhalese script)
- နဒိ or ၼၻိ (Burmese script)
- นทิ or นะทิ (Thai script)
- ᨶᨴᩥ (Tai Tham script)
- ນທິ or ນະທິ (Lao script)
- នទិ (Khmer script)
- 𑄚𑄘𑄨 (Chakma script)
Noun
nadi
- vocative singular of nadī
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
nadi (Cyrillic spelling нади)
- dative/locative singular of nada
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnadi/ [ˈna.ð̞i]
- Rhymes: -adi
- Syllabification: na‧di
Pronoun
nadi
- obsolete form of nadie
Further reading
- “nadi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic نَادَى (nādā).[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Verb
-nadi (infinitive kunadi)
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References
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 287 Nr. 2715