Urdu edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From ڈاک (ḍāk, post) +‎ ـِیَا (-iyā).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ڈاکِیَا (ḍākiyām (Hindi spelling डाकिया)

  1. postman; mailman

Declension edit

Declension of ڈاکیا
singular plural
direct ڈاکیا (ḍākiyā) ڈاکیے (ḍākiye)
oblique ڈاکیے (ḍākiye) ڈاکیوں (ḍākiyõ)
vocative ڈاکیے (ḍākiye) ڈاکیو (ḍākiyo)

Further reading edit

  • ڈاکیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ڈاکیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ڈاک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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    Platts, John Thompson (1884) “ڐاکيا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “دَاکيا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 671
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    John Shakespear (1834) “ڐاکيا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC