چھتر
Punjabi
Alternative forms
- لِتَّر (littar) (dialectal)
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit छित्तरु (chittaru), from Sanskrit छित्त्वार (chittvāra), from the root छिद् (chid). Cognate with Sindhi ڇِتَرُ (chitaru) / ڇِتَرِو (chitiro), Hindi छीतर (chītar), Gujarati છિપરું (chiprũ) and Marathi शित्री (śitrī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰɪt̪ː.əɾə̆/
- Rhymes: -əɾ
- Hyphenation: چِھتْ‧تَر
Noun
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".
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- (literally) old worn-out shoe, slipper
- 1999, الیاس گھمن – Ilyās Ghumman, پنڈ دی لج : کہانیاں – Pinḍ dī laj : kahāṇiyān̲ (fiction), Lahore: ادارہ پنجابی زبان تے ثقافت – Idārā 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 luccā nūṉ chittrāṉ nāl dhauṇī vī lāvāṉ ge."
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Declension
| Declension of چھتر | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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) | — |
| locative | چِھتَّرے (chittare) | چِھتَّرِیں (chittarīṉ) |
| instrumental | چِھتَّرے (chittare) | چِھتَّرِیں (chittarīṉ) |
See also
- چِھتْری (chitrī)
Further reading
- “چھِتّر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “چھِتّر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “chittvará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 276
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