ڈاکیا

Urdu

Alternative forms

• ڈاکِیَہ (ḍākiya)

Etymology

From ڈاک (ḍāk, “post”) +‎ ـِیَا (-iyā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɖɑː.kɪ.jɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: ڈا‧کِ‧یَا

Noun

ڈاکِیَا • (ḍākiyā) m (Hindi spelling डाकिया)

1. postman; mailman

Declension

Declension of ڈاکیا

	singular	plural
direct	ڈاکیا (ḍākiyā)	ڈاکیے (ḍākiye)
oblique	ڈاکیے (ḍākiye)	ڈاکیوں (ḍākiyõ)
vocative	ڈاکیے (ḍākiye)	ڈاکیو (ḍākiyo)

Further reading

• “ڈاکیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ڈاکیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ڈاک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ڐاکيا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 562
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دَاکيا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 671
• John Shakespear (1834) “ڐاکيا”, 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, page 925