آدمی

See also: آدمي

Old Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

Noun

آدَمی (ādamī) m (Gurmukhi ਆਦਮੀ)

1. man, human being
2. servant

Descendants

• Punjabi: ādmī

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਦਮੀ

  Shahmukhi script: آدْمِی

References

• Christopher Shackle (2011) “ਆਦਮੀ”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 24.
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2024

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːd̪.miː/
• Hyphenation: آدْ‧مِی
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

آدْمی • (ādmī) m (Hindi spelling आदमी)

1. (chiefly) man

   Synonyms: بَنْدَہ (banda), مَرْد (mard)

2. a human being
3. individual, person

Declension

Declension of آدمی
	singular	plural
direct	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِی (ādmī)
oblique	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِیوں (ādmiyō̃)
vocative	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِیو (ādmiyō)

Further reading

• “آدمی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “آدمي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 33
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آدمی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 7
• “آدمی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.