dahi

Borrowed from Hindi दही / Urdu دہی‎ (dahī), from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of tyre.

dahi (uncountable)

1. (South Asia) A yogurt or fermented milk product.

• Hadi, Haid, haid

Borrowed from Arabic دَاهٍ‎ (dāhin). Compare Turkish dâhi.

dahi (comparative daha dahi, superlative ən dahi)

1. genius

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *dahi.

dahi

1. (anatomy) forehead (part of face above eyebrows)

Inherited from Malay dahi.

dahi (first-person possessive dahiku, second-person possessive dahimu, third-person possessive dahinya)

1. (anatomy) forehead (part of face above eyebrows)

   Synonym: jidat

• “dahi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayic *dahi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqih, from Proto-Austronesian *daqiS. Cognate with Kavalan zais (“face”), Paiwan djaqis (“forehead”), Eastern Cham ꨖꨬ (dhei, “forehead”), Chamorro ha'i, Hawaiian lae.

• IPA^(key): /dahi/
• Rhymes: -ahi, -hi, -i

dahi (Jawi spelling داهي‎, plural dahi-dahi, informal 1st possessive dahiku, 2nd possessive dahimu, 3rd possessive dahinya)

1. (anatomy) forehead (part of face above eyebrows)

• Indonesian: dahi

• “dahi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

dahi

1. Obsolete spelling of daí

From Ottoman Turkish دخی‎ (dahı, dahi), from Old Anatolian Turkish داخى‎ (daχï), from Proto-Turkic *t(i)akï.

• IPA^(key): /da.hi/

dahi

1. even
2. neither