अपराधी

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अपराधी (aparādhī, adjective); equivalent to अपराध (aprādh, crime, offence) + -ई (). First attested as Old Hindi अपराधी (aparādhī).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /əp.ɾɑː.d̪ʱiː/, [ɐp.ɾäː.d̪ʱiː]

Adjective

अपराधी • (aprādhī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling اَپْرادِھی)

  1. criminal, offender, sinner, guilty, faulty

Noun

अपराधी • (aprādhī) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling اَپْرادِھی)

  1. criminal; sinner
    Synonym: मुजरिम (mujrim)

Usage notes

Normally अपराधी (aprādhī) is used for both genders, but the word अपराधिनी (aprādhinī, female criminal) exists and may be used more formally.

Declension

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

Further reading

Old Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अपराधी (aparādhī).

Noun

अपराधी (aparādhī) m

  1. sinner
    • c. 1420, Kabīr 221.0:
      माधौ मै ऐसा अपराधी, तेरी भगति होत नहीं साधी
      mādhau mai aisā aparādhī, terī bhagati hota nahīṃ sādhī

Further reading

  • Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC

Sanskrit

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Pronunciation

Adjective

अपराधी • (aparādhī) m

  1. nominative singular of अपराधिन् (aparādhin)
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