छप्पड़
Hindi edit
Alternative forms edit
- छप्पर (chappar)
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
छप्पड़ • (chappaṛ) m (Urdu spelling چَھپَّڑ)
- A small pit or pond in which water gathers during the rains. (clarification of this definition is needed)
- 1994, Jagdish Chandra Mathur, नरककुंड में बास [narakkuṇḍ mẽ bās], Rajkamal Prakashan, →ISBN, page 124:
- सड़क के किनारे दोनों ओर बड़ी नालियाँ थीं जिनमें बूटा मण्डी और मुहल्लों की सारी गंदगी पानी के साथ बहकर छप्पड़ में गिरती थी।
- saṛak ke kināre donõ or baṛī nāliyā̃ thī̃ jinmẽ būṭā maṇḍī aur muhallõ kī sārī gandgī pānī ke sāth bahkar chappaṛ mẽ girtī thī.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1996, Mohan Rakesh, मोहन राकेश की संपूर्ण कहानियाँ [mohan rākeś kī sampūrṇ kahāniyā̃, Complete Short Stories of Mohan Rakesh], Rajpal & Sons, →ISBN, page 109:
- आसपास के डेढ़-डेढ़ आदमी गहरे छप्पड़ सूख गए थे।
- āspās ke ḍeṛh-ḍeṛh ādmī gahre chappaṛ sūkh gae the.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Incorrect form of छप्पर (chappar, “thatched roof”). (clarification of this definition is needed)
References edit
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “छप्पर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- “छप्पड़”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “چهپڙ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.