سہیلی

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi سہیلی (shyly /⁠sahelī⁠/) (c. 1564), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀳𑀻 (sahī) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮- (-la-) + -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit सखी (sakhī, “woman's confidante; mistress”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sákʰā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo, from the root *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of سَکھی (sakhī). Cognate with Punjabi ਸਹੇਲੀ (sahelī) / سَہیلی (sahelī) and Sindhi ساهيڙي (saheṛī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɦeː.liː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: سَ‧ہی‧لی

Noun

سَہیلی • (sahelī) f (Hindi spelling सहेली)

1. female friend, confidant (of a woman)

   Synonym: سَکھی (sakhī)

Declension

Declension of سہیلی
	singular	plural
direct	سہیلی (sahelī)	سہیلِیاں (saheliyā̃)
oblique	سہیلی (sahelī)	سہیلِیوں (saheliyō̃)
vocative	سہیلی (sahelī)	سہیلِیو (saheliyō)

Further reading

More information

• “سہیلی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سہيلی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 393
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سہيلي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سہیلی”, 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
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سہیلی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.