गठरी
Hindi
editEtymology
editInherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑀁𑀞𑀺 (gaṃṭhi) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀭- (-ra-) + -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit ग्रन्थि (granthi).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editगठरी • (gaṭhrī) f (Urdu spelling گَٹْھری)
- bundle, package, parcel
- 1964, पोली इमारत [polī imārat], Atmaram & Sons, page 23:
- गठरियों में आटा, चावल, दाल है और डिब्बे में घी।
- gaṭhriyõ mẽ āṭā, cāval, dāl hai aur ḍibbe mẽ ghī.
- There is flour, rice, pulses in the bundles and ghee in the box.
- (figurative) riches, money, wealth
- Synonyms: धन (dhan), संपदा (sampdā), दौलत (daulat), वित्त (vitt), द्रव्य (dravya), माल (māl), लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī)
- 2007, Sardar Mujawar, हिंदी की छायावादी ग़ज़ल [hindī kī chāyāvādī ġazal], Vani Prakashan, page 29:
- अगर अमीर बनना है तो दूसरों की गठरियाँ हड़प नहीं करनी होंगी।
- agar amīr bannā hai to dūsrõ kī gaṭhriyā̃ haṛap nahī̃ karnī hoṅgī.
- If you want to become rich, you will not have to grab the riches of others.
- (figurative) a body like a bundle or package: nonmoving, stationary, or inept and crumpled or squeezed body
- 2009, Sunita Sharma, मैं खुश हूँ कमली [ma͠i khuś hū̃ kamlī], Radhakrishna Prakashan, →ISBN, page 220:
- जरा कल्पना तो करके देख तेरी सुहागरात कैसी होगी? तूने लाल जोड़ा पहना होगा। सफेद कोट-पैंट में अखिल आएगा। […] तू सिमटकर बिलकुल गठरी बन जाएगी। धीरे-धीरे वो तेरा घूँघट उठाएगा...
- jarā kalpanā to karke dekh terī suhāgrāt kaisī hogī? tūne lāl joṛā pahnā hogā. saphed koṭ-paiṇṭ mẽ akhil āegā. […] tū simaṭkar bilkul gaṭhrī ban jāegī. dhīre-dhīre vo terā yūṅghaṭ uṭhāegā...
- Just try to imagine, how your wedding night will be? You would be wearing a red pair. Akhil will come in white coat-pants. […] You will squeeze and become a crumpled, unmoving body. Slowly he will lift your ghoonghat...
Declension
editDeclension of गठरी (fem ī-stem)
Further reading
edit- Bahri, Hardev (1989) “गठरी”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 141.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “गठरी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 897
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गठरी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 251
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “गठरी”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 167
- “गठरी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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