سنہہ
Saraiki edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu). Compare Khowar [script needed] (sin) and Urdu سِنْدھ (sindh). Doublet of سِنْدھ (sindh).
Proper noun edit
سِنّہہ (sinnh) f
- Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China).
Usage notes edit
This term is mainly referred to the part of the river below Kalabagh; see اَٹَک (aṭak), for the part of the river above Kalabagh.
References edit
- “سنہہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 199
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sindhu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 774