دودھ

See also: دودة

Urdu

Alternative forms

• دُدُّھو (duddhū) — childish

Etymology

First attested in c. 1411 as Middle Hindi دودھ (dūdh /⁠dvdh⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (duddha), from Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰugdʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugʰ-tó-s, from *dʰewgʰ- (“to yield”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪uːd̪ʱ/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [d̪uːd̪]
• Rhymes: -uːd̪ʱ

Noun

دُودھ • (dūdh) m (Hindi spelling दूध)

1. milk

   Synonym: شِیر (śīr)

2. (by extension) milk; sap of certain plants
3. (by extension) coconut water
4. a woman's breast, nipple
5. (figuratively) family; race; creed; caste
6. (figuratively, rare) light (as opposed to darkness)

Declension

Declension of دودھ
	singular	plural
direct	دُودھ (dūdh)	دُودھ (dūdh)
oblique	دُودھ (dūdh)	دُودھوں (dūdhō̃)
vocative	دُودھ (dūdh)	دُودھو (dūdhō)

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: ديد (dēd)

Further reading

• “دودھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دودھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دودهـ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 317
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دودهہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 532
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دودھ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 646
• John Shakespear (1834) “دودهـ”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dugdhá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press