چھتر
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Punjabi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- لِتَّر (littar) (dialectal)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit छित्तरु (chittaru), from Sanskrit छित्त्वर (chittvará), from the root छिद् (chid). Cognate with Sindhi ڇِتَرُ (chitaru) / ڇِتَرِو (chitiro), Hindi छीतर (chītar), Gujarati છિપરું (chiprũ) and Marathi शित्री (śitrī).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰɪt̪.t̪əɾə̆/
- Rhymes: -əɾ
- Hyphenation: چِھتْ‧تَر
Noun
[edit]چِھتَّر • (chittar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਛਿੱਤਰ)
- (figuratively) beating
- 2000, امین ملک [Amin Malik], گونگی تریہہ : کہانیاں [Gūngī treh : kahāṇiyān̲] (fiction), Lahore: ادارہ پنجابى زبان تے ثقافت [Idārah-yi Panjābī Zabān te S̲aqāfat], →OCLC, page 38:
- "چنگا کیتا ای‘ ایہ ہے ہی ذلیل چھتراں دے لائق۔"
- "caṉgā kītā ī’ eh hai hī ẕalīl chittrāṉ de lāyaq."
- "That was good of you’ he's only worthy of being disgraced [and] beatings".
- (literally) old worn-out shoe, slipper
- Synonym: پولا (polā)
- 1999, الیاس گھمن [Ilyās Ghumman], پنڈ دی لج : کہانیاں [Pinḍ dī laj : kahāṇiyān̲] (fiction), Lahore: ادارہ پنجابی زبان تے ثقافت [Idāra Panjābī Zabān Te S̲aqāfat], →OCLC, page 17:
- سگوں تہاڈیاں اَکھاں ساہمنے اوس لُچے نوں چِھتراں نال دَھونی وی لاواں گے۔"
- sagoṉ tuhāḍiyaṉ akkhāṉ sāhmṇe os lucce nūṉ chittrāṉ nāl dhauṇī vī lāvāṉ ge."
- In fact, we'll thrash this rascal with shoes and rip his guts out right in front of you.
Declension
[edit]Declension of چھتر | ||
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dir. sg. | چِھتَّر (chittar) | |
dir. pl. | چِھتَّر (chittar) | |
singular | plural | |
direct | چِھتَّر (chittar) | چِھتَّر (chittar) |
oblique | چِھتَّر (chittar) | چِھتَّراں (chittarāṉ) |
vocative | چِھتَّرا (chittarā) | چِھتَّرو (chittaro) |
ablative | چِھتَّروں (chittaroṉ) | چِھتَّراں (chittarāṉ) |
locative | چِھتَّرے (chittare) | چِھتَّرِیں (chittarīṉ) |
instrumental | چِھتَّروں (chittaroṉ) | – |
See also
[edit]- چِھتْری (chitrī)
Further reading
[edit]- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “چھِتّر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “چھِتّر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “chittvará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 276
Categories:
- Punjabi terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Punjabi terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skeyd-
- Punjabi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Punjabi terms derived from the Sanskrit root छिद्
- Punjabi terms inherited from Prakrit
- Punjabi terms derived from Prakrit
- Punjabi terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Punjabi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Punjabi/əɾ
- Rhymes:Punjabi/əɾ/2 syllables
- Punjabi lemmas
- Punjabi nouns
- Punjabi nouns in Shahmukhi script
- Punjabi masculine nouns
- Punjabi terms with quotations
- Punjabi nouns with declension
- pa:Violence
- pa:Footwear