ਆਦਮੀ

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”).

ਆਦਮੀ (ādamī) m (Shahmukhi آدَمی)

1. man, human being
   • 1604, Guru Nanak, Ādi Granth ang 660:

     ਹਮ ਆਦਮੀ ਹਾਂ ਇਕ ਦਮੀ ਮੁਹਲਤਿ ਮੁਹਤੁ ਨ ਜਾਣਾ॥

     hama ādamī hāṃ ika damī muhalati muhatu na jāṇā.

     • 1972 translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

       We are human beings of the briefest moment; we do not know the appointed time of our departure.

2. servant

• Punjabi: ādmī

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਦਮੀ

  Shahmukhi script: آدْمِی

• Christopher Shackle (2011) “ਆਦਮੀ”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2^nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 24
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2025

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدمی (ādamī), from Arabic آدَمِيّ (ʔādamiyy, “human”). First attested as Old Punjabi آدَمی / ਆਦਮੀ (ādamī).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /äːd̪.miː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: ਆਦ‧ਮੀ

ਆਦਮੀ • (ādmī) m (Shahmukhi spelling آدْمِی)

1. person
2. man

• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2025
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Punjabipedia [ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪੀਡੀਆ] (in Punjabi), Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ਆਦਮੀ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
• “ਆਦਮੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025