پنچھی
Punjabi edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Paisaci Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀁𑀔𑀺 (paṃkhi), 𑀧𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀺 (pakkhi)), from Sanskrit पक्षिन् (pakṣín, literally “winged”).
Noun edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit पक्षिन् (pakṣín, “bird”, literally “winged”). First attested as Old Hindi पंषी (pãṣī). Doublet of پَکْشِی (pakśī).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pən.t͡ʃʰiː/
- Hyphenation: پَنْ‧چِھی
Noun edit
پَنْچِھی • (panchī) m (Hindi spelling पंछी)
Further reading edit
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “پنچهي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 369
- “پنچھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “پنچهی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 272
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پنچهی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 162
- “پنچھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- John Shakespear (1834) “پنچهي”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 428