आदिम

Borrowed from Sanskrit आदिम (ādima). By surface analysis, आदि (ādi) +‎ -इम (-im).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.d̪ɪm/, [äː.d̪ɪ̃m]

आदिम • (ādim) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling آدم)

1. initial, primeval, early, archaic

   आदिम-हिन्द-यूरोपीय भाषा ― ādim-hind-yūropīya bhāṣā ― Proto-Indo-European language

   • c. 1930, Rahul Sankrityayan, अथातो घुमक्कड़-जिज्ञासा [athāto ghumakkaṛ-jijñāsā]:

     प्राकृतिक आदिम मनुष्ये परम घुमक्कड़ था। खेती, बागबानी तथा घर-द्वार से मुक्त वह आकाश के पक्षियों की भाँति पृथ्वी पर सदा विचरण करता था

     prākŕtik ādim manuṣye parm ghumakkaṛ thā. khetī, bāgbānī tathā ghar-dvār se mukt vah ākāś ke pakṣiyõ kī bhā̃ti pŕthvī par sadā vicraṇ kartā thā

     The natural, primeval man was the wanderer’s paragon. Free from farming, gardening and husbandry he dwelled the whole Earth as birds the sky.

• आदिमवाद (ādimvād, “primitivism”)

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

From आदि (ādi, “beginning, origin”) +‎ -इम (-ima).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.di.mɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.d̪i.mɐ/

आदिम • (ādima) stem

1. first
2. primitive
3. original
4. aboriginal

• आदिमत्व (ādimatva)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आदिम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 137.