سردی

Pahari-Potwari

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَرْدی (sardē).

Noun

سَرْدی (sardī) f

1. the cold
2. winter (season of the year)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (sltyh /⁠sardīh⁠/), from [script needed] (slt' /⁠sard⁠/) +‎ [script needed] (-yh /⁠-īh⁠/).

Noun

Dari	سردی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сардӣ

سردی • (sardi)

1. cold
2. (figurative) coldness, bitterness
3. apathy

Related terms

• سرد (sard)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: શરદી (śardī)
• → Hindi: सर्दी (sardī)
• → Bengali: সর্দি (śordi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سردی (serdi)
• → Urdu: سردی (sardī)
• →? Georgian: სურდო (surdo)
  • → Armenian: սուրդո (surdo) (Tbilisi)
  • → Bats: სურდუ (surdu)
  • → Mingrelian: სურდუ (surdu)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَرْدی (sardē). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi سردی (srdy /⁠sardī⁠/). By surface analysis, سَرْد (sard) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səɾ.d̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: سَر‧دی

Noun

سَرْدی • (sardī) f (Hindi spelling सर्दी)

1. the cold
2. winter (season of the year)
3. (pathology) the common cold, flu (ie. illness)
4. shivering
5. to be cold-hearted, indifferent, insensitive

Declension

Declension of سردی

	singular	plural
direct	سَرْدی (sardī)	سَرْدِیاں (sardiyā̃)
oblique	سَرْدی (sardī)	سَرْدِیوں (sardiyō̃)
vocative	سَرْدی (sardī)	سَرْدِیو (sardiyō)

Further reading

• “سردی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “سردی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]