Borrowed from Hindi पादरी (pādrī), from Portuguese padre. Compare Konkani पाद्रि (pādri), Malayalam പാതിരി (pātiri), Sinhalese පාදිලියා (pādiliyā), and Japanese 破天連 (Bateren)
- IPA(key): /faː.d̪i.ɾiː/, [faː.d̪i.ɾiː]
- Hyphenation: ފާ‧ދި‧ރީ
ފާދިރީ • (fādirī) (plural ފާދިރީތައް (fādirītak̊))
- Christian clergyman, chaplain, priest, padre
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ފާދިރީ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 67