हथौड़ा

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit हस्तकूट (hastakūṭa), a compound of हस्त (hasta, “hand”) and कूट (kūṭa, “hammer”). Cognate with Punjabi ਹਥੌੜਾ (hathauṛā) / ہتھوڑا (hthoṛā), Gujarati હથોડો (hathoḍo), Marathi हातोडा (hātoḍā), Assamese হাতুৰী (haturi).Bengali হাতুড়ি (hatuṛi).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɦə.t̪ʰɔː.ɽɑː/, [ɦɐ.t̪ʰɔː.ɽäː]

Noun

हथौड़ा • (hathauṛā) m (Urdu spelling ہتھوڑا)

hammer

Declension

Declension of हथौड़ा (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	हथौड़ा hathauṛā	हथौड़े hathauṛe
oblique	हथौड़े hathauṛe	हथौड़ों hathauṛõ
vocative	हथौड़े hathauṛe	हथौड़ो hathauṛo

References

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

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