چابی

See also: چاٻی and باجی

Urdu

Alternative forms

• چابھی (cābhī)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese chave, from Latin clāvis.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.biː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: چا‧بی

Noun

چابی • (cābī) f (Hindi spelling चाबी)

1. key (object for opening and closing a lock)

   Synonym: تالی (tālī)

Declension

Declension of چابی
	singular	plural
direct	چابی (cābī)	چابیاں (cābiyā̃)
oblique	چابی (cābī)	چابیوں (cābiyō̃)
vocative	چابی (cābī)	چابیو (cābiyō)

Related terms

• تالا (tālā)

Further reading

• “چابی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چابی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چابی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.