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Etymology

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Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (saṇiccara), likely from Sanskrit शनैश्चर (†*śanaiścara-), see शनि (śani). Cognate with Punjabi چَھنِچَّھر (chanicchar) / ਛਨਿੱਛਰ (chanicchar) and Sindhi ڇَنْڇَرُ (čhančharu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَنِیچَر (sanīcarm (Hindi spelling सनीचर)

  1. (astronomy) the planet Saturn
  2. Saturday
    Synonym: ہَفْتَہ (hafta)
  3. (astrology) the name of a god
  4. (figuratively) dirt; poverty

Declension

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Declension of سنیچر
singular plural
direct سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)
oblique سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَروں (sanīcarō̃)
vocative سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَرو (sanīcarō)

Adjective

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سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सनीचर) (figuratively)

  1. ill-luck, misfortunate person
  2. dirty
  3. miserable; stingy

See also

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Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
اِتْوَار (itvār) پِیر (pīr) مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) بُدھ (budh) جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt) جُمْعَہ (jum'a) ہَفْتَہ (hafta)

Further reading

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  • سنیچر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • سنیچر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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    Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنيچو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سنيچر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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p=787 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “سنیچر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

  • John Shakespear (1834) “سنیچر”, 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
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śanaiścara-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press