آدمی

See also: آدمي

Old Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

Noun

آدَمی (ādamī) m (Gurmukhi ਆਦਮੀ)

1. man, human being
2. servant

Descendants

• Punjabi: ādmī

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਦਮੀ

  Shahmukhi script: آدْمِی

References

• Christopher Shackle (2011) “ਆਦਮੀ”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2^nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 24
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2024

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human being”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.ða.miː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.d̪ä.miː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.d̪ä.miː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.d̪ä.miː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.d̪ä.mi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.d̪æ.miː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.d̪ä.mi]

Readings
Classical reading?	āḏamī
Dari reading?	ādamī
Iranian reading?	âdami
Tajik reading?	odami

Noun

Dari	آدمی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	одами

آدمی • (âdami)

1. Man, mankind, human
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 845:

     آدمی مخفی است در زیر زبان
     این زبان پرده است بر درگاه جان

     ādamī maxfī-st dar zēr-i zabān
     īn zabān parda-st dar dargāh-i jān

     Man is concealed underneath his tongue:
     this tongue is the curtain over the gate of the soul.

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آدمی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːd̪.miː/
• Hyphenation: آدْ‧مِی
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

آدْمی • (ādmī) m (Hindi spelling आदमी)

1. (chiefly) man

   Synonyms: بَنْدَہ (banda), مَرْد (mard), مَنُشیَہ (manuśya), اِنْسان (insān), مانَو (mānau)

2. a human being
3. individual, person

Declension

Declension of آدمی
	singular	plural
direct	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِی (ādmī)
oblique	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِِیوں (ādmiyō̃)
vocative	آدْمِی (ādmī)	آدْمِِیو (ādmiyō)

Further reading

• “آدمی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “آدمي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 33
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آدمی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 7
• “آدمی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.