اکائی

Urdu

Etymology

From ایک (ek, “one”) +‎ ـَائی (-āī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.kɑː.iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: اِ‧کَا‧ءِی

Noun

اِکَائی • (ikāī) f (Hindi spelling इकाई)

1. (arithmetic) a single unit, digit; ones
2. unit; measure
3. (politics) an administrative unit of a country

Declension

Declension of اکائی
	singular	plural
direct	اِکَائی (ikāī)	اِکَائیاں (ikāiyā̃)
oblique	اِکَائی (ikāī)	اِکَائیوں (ikāiyō̃)
vocative	اِکَائی (ikāī)	اِکَائیو (ikāiyō)

Further reading

• “اکائی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اکائی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اکائی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “اکائی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِکاي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 105