Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسِیرِی (asīrī). By surface analysis, اَسِیر (asīr) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

اَسِیری (asīrīf (Hindi spelling असीरी)

  1. captivity, capture, imprisonment

Declension edit

Declension of اسیری
singular plural
direct اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیریاں (asīriyā̃)
oblique اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیریوں (asīriyō̃)
vocative اَسِیری (asīrī) اَسِیریو (asīriyō)

Further reading edit

  • اسیری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • اسیری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اسير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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    Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اسيري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
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    John Shakespear (1834) “اسیري”, 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