मिसरी
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مصری (misrī), from Arabic مِصْرِيّ (miṣriyy). By surface analysis, मिस्र (misra, “Egypt”) + -ई (-ī). The third part of speech sense is named for Egyptian exports of sugar in the pre-modern era.
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /mɪs.ɾiː/
Declension
NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.
Declension of मिसरी (masc ī-stem)
Declension
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मिसरी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
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