دانت

Arabic

Verb

دَانَتْ • (dānat) (form I) /daː.nat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of دَانَ (dāna)

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi دانت (dā̃t /⁠dānt⁠/) / داند (dā̃d /⁠dānd⁠/) / دند (/⁠dand⁠/) / دنت (/⁠dant⁠/), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀁𑀢 (daṃta), from Sanskrit दन्त (dánta), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hdántas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt-o-s, thematized from *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of دَنْدَان (dandān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑ̃ːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ːt̪

Noun

دان٘ت • (dā̃t) m (Hindi spelling दाँत)

1. (anatomy) tooth
2. (anatomy) tusk

Further reading

More information

• “دانت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دانت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دانت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دانت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “دانت”, 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