जेठानी

From Sanskrit ज्येष्ठ (jyeṣṭha, “elder brother”) + जानि (jāni, “wife”).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeː.ʈʰɑː.niː/, [d͡ʒeː.ʈʰäː.niː]

जेठानी • (jeṭhānī) f (masculine जेठ, Urdu spelling جیٹھانی)

1. husband's elder brother's wife

• जेठ (jeṭh)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “जेठानी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “जेठानी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “जेठानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

• IPA^(key): [d͡zeʈʰäni]
• Phonetic Devanagari: जेठानि

जेठानी • (jeṭhānī) f

1. husband's elder brother's wife; sister-in-law

husband's elder brother's wife is addressed as दिदी [didī] but जेठानी [jeṭhānī] is used only when referring to as.

• “जेठानी”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “जेठानी”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar