अपराधी

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

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

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

1. criminal, offender, sinner, guilty, faulty

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

1. criminal; sinner

   Synonym: मुजरिम (mujrim)

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

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

• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “अपराधी”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “अपराधी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “अपराधी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “अपराधी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• “अपराधी”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अपराधी (aparādhī).

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

• 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

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɐ.ɾɑː.dʱiː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɐˈɾɑː.d̪ʱiː/

अपराधी • (aparādhī) m

1. nominative singular of अपराधिन् (aparādhin)