जिल्द

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جلد (jild), from Arabic جِلْد (jild).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪld̪/

Noun

जिल्द • (jild) f (Urdu spelling جلد)

1. binding (the spine of a book, by which pages are held together)
2. hide, skin (the outer layer of a living thing)

   Synonyms: चमड़ा (camṛā), त्वचा (tvacā)

Declension

Declension of जिल्द (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	जिल्द jild	जिल्दें jildẽ
oblique	जिल्द jild	जिल्दों jildõ
vocative	जिल्द jild	जिल्दो jildo

References

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