اونٹ

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اونٹ

اونٹ

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀝𑁆𑀝 (uṭṭa), from Sanskrit उष्ट्र (úṣṭra, “camel”).^[1] First attested in c. 1565 as Middle Hindi اوٿ (avṭ /⁠ūṭ⁠/) and later as اونٿ (avnṭ /⁠ū̃ṭ⁠/) in c. 1609.^[2]

Cognates

Northwestern Indo-Aryan cognates include Punjabi اُوٹھ / ਊਠ (ūṭh), Saraiki اُٹھ (uṭh) and Sindhi اُٺُ (uṭhu). Also compare the Iranian cognates Pashto اُوښ (ūx̌) and Classical Persian (uštur).

اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) m (Hindi spelling ऊँट)

camel, dromedary
- 1845, Ahwal-ul-Anbiya, volume 1, page 225:
  ذبح کرنا گائے بکری اونٹ پالو مرغی بط کا درست ہے۔
  zibh karnā gāe bakrī ū̃ṭ pālo murġī bat kā durust hai.
  The slaughter of cow, goat, camel, domestic chicken, [and] duck is permissible.

اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ऊँट)

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “úṣṭra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 112
^ “اونٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

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John Shakespear (1834) “اونٹ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC