پھپھیر

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit *फुप्फु (*phupphu).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /pʰʊp.pʰeːɾᵊ/

Adjective

پُھپّھیر • (phuppher) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਫੁਫੇਰ)

1. child of aunt (father's sister)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “پھُپھّیر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*phupphu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press