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See also: यद्, यदा, and याद

Hindi

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यदि (yadi).

Pronunciation

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  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /jə.d̪iː/, [jɐ.d̪iː]

Conjunction

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यदि (yadi) (Urdu spelling یدی) (formal)

  1. if
  2. whether
  3. though

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Nepali

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यदि (yadi).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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यदि (yadi)

  1. (used with भने [bhane]) if
    यदि भोलि पानी पर्यो भने, म कार्यालय जान्नँ।
    yadi bholi pānī paryo bhane, ma kāryālaya jānnã.
    If it rains tomorrow, I'm not going to office.
  2. supposing that

Sanskrit

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyádi (if, when), from Proto-Indo-European *Hyós (that, who, which). Cognate with Avestan 𐬫𐬈𐬌𐬜𐬌 (yeiδi), 𐬫𐬈𐬜𐬌 (yeδi, if, when), Old Persian 𐎹𐎮𐎹 (y-di-y /⁠yadiy⁠/, if).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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यदि (yádi)

  1. if; in case that
    यदि अहं तस्याः गृहं गच्छेयम्, तर्हि अहं तुष्येयम्yadi ahaṃ tasyāḥ gṛhaṃ gaccheyam, tarhi ahaṃ tuṣyeyam.If I had gone to his house then I would have been happy.

Usage notes

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  • This conjunction is indeclinable.

Descendants

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “यदि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 844/3, 845/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 390; 397