سطحی

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَطْحِيّ (saṭḥiyy). By surface analysis, سطح (sath, surface) +‎ ـی (-i, suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sathī
Dari reading? sathī
Iranian reading? sathi
Tajik reading? sathi

Adjective

سطحی • (sathi)

  1. superficial
  2. surface, relating to the surface
    کشش سطحیkešeš-e sathisurface tension

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَطْحِی (sathī), from Arabic سَطْحِيّ (saṭḥiyy).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sət̪.ɦiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: سَط‧حی

Adjective

سَطْحی • (sathī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सतही)

  1. superficial
  2. shallow, trivial
  3. surface-level

Further reading

  • سطحی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • سطحی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سطح”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 379
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “سطحی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “سطحی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC