दलाल
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). First attested as Old Hindi दलाल (dalāla).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
दलाल • (dalāl) m (Urdu spelling دَلَال)
Declension edit
Declension of दलाल (masc cons-stem)
Derived terms edit
- दलाली (dalālī)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दलाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 483
- “दलाल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Marathi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
दलाल • (dalāl) m
Derived terms edit
- दलाली (dalālī, “brokerage”)
Further reading edit
- Berntsen, Maxine, “दलाल”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983, page 67.
- Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “दलाल”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 404
- दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “दलाल”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 1620.
Old Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَلّال (dallāl), from Arabic دَلَّال (dallāl, “auctioneer, broker, middleman, agent”). Compare Old Punjabi ਦਲਾਲੁ (dalālu), Middle Bengali দালাল (dalal).
Noun edit
दलाल (dalāla)
Derived terms edit
- दलाली (dalālī)
Descendants edit
- Hindustani: dalāl
Further reading edit
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 538