موتی

Urdu

موتِیوں کا ہار

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi موتی (mvty /⁠motī⁠/) (c. 1503), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa मोतिउ (motiu), from Prakrit 𑀫𑁄𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀅 (mŏttia), from Sanskrit मौक्तिक (mauktika).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /moː.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مو‧تی

Proper noun

موتی • (motī) m (Hindi spelling मोती)

1. A given name for a dog.

Noun

موتی • (motī) m (Hindi spelling मोती)

1. pearl

   موتی پِرونا ― motī pironā ― to string pearls

2. (figuratively) star

Declension

Declension of موتی
	singular	plural
direct	موتی (motī)	موتی (motī)
oblique	موتی (motī)	موتِیوں (motiyõ)
vocative	موتی (motī)	موتِیو (motiyo)

Descendants

• → Bengali: মোতি (mōti) (partially)

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mauktika”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “موتی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1130
• Platts, John T. (1884) “موتی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1086
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “موتی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 619
• “موتی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “موتی”, 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
• “موتی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.