لاری

See also: لاري

Persian

Etymology 1

From لار (lâr, “Lar, a Persian town that according to tradition would have been the first to produce the coin”) +‎ ـی (-i).

Noun

لاری • (lâri)

1. (historical) a Persian silver coin

Descendants

• → Dhivehi: ލާރި (lāri)
  • → English: laari
• →? Georgian: ლარი (lari)
  • → English: lari

Etymology 2

From English lorry.

Noun

لاری • (lārī)

1. (Dari) lorry, truck

Further reading

• Larin (currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لاری”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1111

Punjabi

Etymology

Etymology tree

English lorrybor.

Punjabi لاری (lārī)

Borrowed from English lorry.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /läː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Syllabification: لا‧ری

Noun

لاری • (lārī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਰੀ)

1. truck; lorry
   • 1999, Afzal Tausif, من دیاں وستیاں [man dīyāṉ vastīyāṉ], page 66:

     لاریاں وچ لد کے باہر جاندا۔

     lārīyāṉ vicc ladd ke bāhar jāndā.

     He goes out after loading the trucks.

2. bus

   لاری اَڈَّہ

   lārī aḍḍah

   Bus station

Declension

Declension of لاری

	singular	plural
direct	لاری (lārī)	لارِیاں (lārīyāṉ)
oblique	لاری (lārī)	لارِیاں (lārīyāṉ)
vocative	لارِیے (lāriye)	لارِیو (lārīv)
ablative	لارِیوں (lārīvṉ)	لارِیاں (lārīyāṉ)
locative	—	—
instrumental	—	—

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “لاری”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “لاری”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਲਾਰੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025