گڑ

Brahui

Alternative forms

• گِہْ (gih) — Jhalawan

Etymology

Unknown. No Dravidian source is apparent.

• Bray suggest an Iranian loan by comparison with Persian گرده (gerde, “loaf, round thing”), Pashto [script needed] (gird), but rejects this on the basis of gih.
• He then suggests Kui (India) [script needed] (guṛi, “all, every”) as a potential Dravidian connection.
• McAlpin relates it to Achaemenid Elamite [script needed] (ki /⁠ki⁠/, “one”), [script needed] (ki-ir /⁠kir⁠/, “one (person)”) and says no Dravidian cognate exists.

Pronoun

گِڑ (giṛ)

1. all, the whole

Derived terms

• گِڑے (giṛe, “all”)
• گِڑَا (giṛā, “thing”) (possibly)
• گِڑَاس (giṛās, “some(thing)”)

Determiner

گِڑ (giṛ)

1. whole

   کَنے گِڑو اِرَغَس تِسّ

   kane giṛo iraġas tiss

   He gave me a whole loaf.

   Synonym: غُٹّ (ġuṭṭ)

Further reading

• Bray, Denys (1934) “giṛ”, in The Brahui Language‎^[2], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 561

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi गुड (guḍa), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀼𑀟 (guḍa), from Sanskrit गुड (guḍá). Cognate to Punjabi ਗੁੜ (guṛ), Gujarati ગોળ (goḷ), Marathi गूळ (gūḷ), Bengali গুড় (guṛ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʊɽ/

Noun

گڑ • (guṛ) m (Hindi spelling गुड़)

1. jaggery