एलची

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai [Term?]. Compare Turkish elçi (“ambassador”), Gujarati એલચી (elacī).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /eːl.t͡ʃiː/

Noun

एलची • (elcī) m (Urdu spelling ایلچی)

1. ambassador, emissary

   Synonym: राजदूत (rājdūt)

Declension

Declension of एलची (masc ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	एलची elcī	एलची elcī
oblique	एलची elcī	एलचियों elciyõ
vocative	एलची elcī	एलचियो elciyo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “एलची”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press