اونٹ

Urdu

اونٹ

Alternative forms

• אוּנְתּ (ūnṭ) (Judeo-Urdu)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi اوٹ (ūṭ) (c. 1565) / اونٹ (ū̃ṭ) (c. 1609), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀝𑁆𑀝 (uṭṭa), from Sanskrit उष्ट्र (úṣṭra, “camel”). Cognate with Punjabi اُوٹھ (ūṭh) / ਊਠ (ūṭha), Saraiki اُٹھ (uṭh) and Sindhi اُٺُ (uṭhu). Also compare Pashto اُوښ (ūx̌) and Persian اُشْتُر (oštor).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ũːʈ/

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• Rhymes: -ũːʈ

Noun

اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) m (Hindi spelling ऊँट)

1. camel, dromedary
   • 1845, Ahwal-ul-Anbiya, volume 1, page 225:

     ذبح کرنا گائے بکری اونٹ پالو مرغی بط کا درست ہے۔

     zibh karnā gāe bakrī ū̃ṭ pālo murġī bat kā durust hai.

     The slaughter of cow, goat, camel, domestic chicken, [and] duck is permissible.

Declension

Declension of اونٹ
	singular	plural
direct	اونٹ (ūnṭ)	اونٹ (ūnṭ)
oblique	اونٹ (ūnṭ)	اونٹوں (ūnṭō̃)
vocative	اونٹ (ūnṭ)	اونٹو (ūnṭō)

Descendants

• → English: oont

Adjective

اُون٘ٹ • (ū̃ṭ) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ऊँट)

1. (figuratively) tall
2. (figuratively) fool, foolish

Further reading

• “اونٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اونٹ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اونٹ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اونٿ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “اُونت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 181
• John Shakespear (1834) “اونٹ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “úṣṭra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 112