پٹواری

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *पट्टपालिन् (paṭṭapālin, literally “slab-keeper, cloth-keeper”). Equivalent to پَٹْوار (paṭvār) +‎ ـی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pəʈ.ʋɑː.ɾiː/, /pəʈ.wɑː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: پَٹ‧وا‧ری

Noun

پَٹْواری • (paṭvārī) m (Hindi spelling पटवारी)

1. (Pakistani politics) a member or supporter of the PML-N party
2. (by extension) a Tory, or a politically conservative person.
3. a village accountant; patwari

Declension

Declension of پٹواری
	singular	plural
direct	پَٹْواری (paṭvārī)	پَٹْواری (paṭvārī)
oblique	پَٹْواری (paṭvārī)	پَٹْوارِیوں (paṭvāriyõ)
vocative	پَٹْواری (paṭvārī)	پَٹْوارِیو (paṭvāriyo)

Further reading

• “پٹواری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پٹواری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پٹواری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پٿواري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 228
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پتَواری”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 341
• John Shakespear (1834) “پٹواری”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC