ساڑی

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀸𑀟𑀻 (sāḍī), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), from शाट (śāṭa, “strip of cloth”). Doublet of شَال (śāl) through Persian. Compare Punjabi ਸਾੜ੍ਹੀ (sāṛhī) / ساڑھی (sāṛhī), Sindhi ساڙهيِ / साढ़ी, Gujarati સાડી (sāḍī), Marathi साडी (sāḍī), Bengali শাড়ি (śaṛi), Assamese শাৰী (xari), Sylheti ꠢꠣꠠꠤ (haṛi), Malayalam സാരി (sāri).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɑː.ɽiː/

Noun

سَاڑِی • (sāṛī) f (Hindi spelling साड़ी)

1. sari (traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent)

Declension

Declension of ساڑی
	singular	plural
direct	سَاڑِی (sāṛī)	سَاڑِیاں (sāṛiyā̃)
oblique	سَاڑِی (sāṛī)	سَاڑِیوں (sāṛiyō̃)
vocative	سَاڑِی (sāṛī)	سَاڑِیو (sāṛiyō)

References

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ساڑهی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śāṭa¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press