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Borrowed from Sanskrit हलदी (haladī).

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  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɦəl.d̪iː/, [ɦɐl.d̪iː]

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हलदी (haldīf (Urdu spelling ہلدی)

  1. turmeric (Curcuma longa and its dye)

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A corrupted form of हरिद्रा (haridrā, turmeric). With that semantic connection and that phonetic variant, one also thinks about a Semitic connection due to Hebrew חָרוּץ (ḥārū́ṣ, cut in, dug; sharpened; figuratively gold), Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤑 (ḥrṣ, gold), Punic 𐤇𐤓𐤑 (ḥrṣ, gold; potash), Ugaritic 𐎃𐎗𐎕 (ḫrṣ /⁠ḫurāṣu⁠/, gold), حُرْض (ḥurḍ, potash, alkali), حَرَض (ḥaraḍ, to milk utterly; to be emaciated), Akkadian ḫarṣum (cut off, treated) and ḫalṣum (squeezed out, obtained by pressing, said of oils, medicine etc.), Arabic إِحْرِيض (ʔiḥrīḍ, saffron), possibly Kannada ಅರಿಶಿನ (ariśina, turmeric), Akkadian 𒆬𒄀 (ḫurāṣum, gold), Classical Syriac ܚܪ̈ܘܥܐ (ḥarrūʿā, yellow) whence Arabic خَرُّوع (ḵarrūʕ, castor oil plant), Classical Syriac ܚܪܝܥܐ (ḥrīʿā, safflower), ܚܪܐ (ḥrāʿ, a plant name, especially those with yellow flowers), but this is, though it passed into Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, gold), dubious due to the origin of the plant itself, the Indian term having been borrowed into Yemen as هُرْد (hurd) and another widely in Semitic as كُرْكُم (kurkum) etc. from कुङ्कुम (kuṅkuma, saffron, crocus).

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हलदी (haladī) stemf

  1. turmeric (Curcuma longa and its dye)

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Feminine ī-stem declension of हलदी (haladī)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative हलदी
haladī
हलद्यौ / हलदी¹
haladyau / haladī¹
हलद्यः / हलदीः¹
haladyaḥ / haladīḥ¹
Vocative हलदि
haladi
हलद्यौ / हलदी¹
haladyau / haladī¹
हलद्यः / हलदीः¹
haladyaḥ / haladīḥ¹
Accusative हलदीम्
haladīm
हलद्यौ / हलदी¹
haladyau / haladī¹
हलदीः
haladīḥ
Instrumental हलद्या
haladyā
हलदीभ्याम्
haladībhyām
हलदीभिः
haladībhiḥ
Dative हलद्यै
haladyai
हलदीभ्याम्
haladībhyām
हलदीभ्यः
haladībhyaḥ
Ablative हलद्याः / हलद्यै²
haladyāḥ / haladyai²
हलदीभ्याम्
haladībhyām
हलदीभ्यः
haladībhyaḥ
Genitive हलद्याः / हलद्यै²
haladyāḥ / haladyai²
हलद्योः
haladyoḥ
हलदीनाम्
haladīnām
Locative हलद्याम्
haladyām
हलद्योः
haladyoḥ
हलदीषु
haladīṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic
  • ²Brāhmaṇas

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “हलदी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1293.
  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen[1] (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 415
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1909), Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale. Deuxième volume. Daṯînah. Deuxième partie[2] (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 1317