दादी

See also: दीदी, दिदी, दादा, and द्द

Hindi

Etymology

McGregor inferred it to be from Old Indo-Aryan dādda-. Platts gives it as from the Sanskrit तात+इका

Noun

दादी • (dādī) f

paternal grandmother, wife of दादा

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दादी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Platts, John T. (1884), “दादी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.

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