User:AryamanA/Hindi regionalisms

Regional slang, much of it vulgar. Refs are YouTube videos, tweets, whatever sources of colloquial language I can find since I cannot do fieldwork in India anytime soon.

Uttar Pradesh

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Poorvanchal

• भौकाल f (bhaukāl, “pride, honour (sarcastic)”) (Varanasi, Ilahabad)
• चौचक (caucak, “hot, attractive; trendy”) (Varanasi)
• हूरा? (hūrā?, “a punch”) (Varanasi)

Lucknow

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• रंगबाज़ी f (raṅgbāzī, “pride, honour (sarcastic)”)
• चकल्लस f (cakallas, “gossip”)
• तफ़रीह f (tafrīh, “tomfoolery”) (Perso-Arabic is pervasive?)
• गिलोरी f (gilorī, “paan”)
• ग़रीबख़ाना m (ġarībxānā), दौलतख़ाना (daulatxānā) (also in other places)
• दियासलाई f (diyāslāī, “matchstick”)
• तरकारी (tarkārī)
• चरस बोना (caras bonā, “to fool/spread rumours/fake news; to be a pain?”) < चरस (caras, “hemp?”)
• चीकट (cīkaṭ), लीचड़ (līcaṛ), सूम (sūm, “cheap, miserly”)
• काहिल (kāhil, “lazy”)
• लुड़ (luṛ, “dumb”)
• लप्पड़ (lappaṛ, “slap”)

Kanpur

• कंटाप (kaṇṭāp, “slap”)

Delhi

Regionalisms (reflecting isoglosses?)

• शिकंजी f (śikañjī, “lemonade”)
• गुनगुना (gungunā, “(luke)warm”)
• गोलगप्पा (golgappā)

Slang [5] [6] [7] [8]

• भसड़ f (bhasaṛ, “problem, issue”)
• भंड m (bhaṇḍ, “hangover; drunk”)
• खस्सी m (khassī, “loser”)
• ठुल्ला m (ṭhullā, “cop, policeman”)
• जुगाड़ m (jugāṛ, “quick fix”) (in other Hindi-speaking regions, it's basically the same as इंतिज़ाम (intizām), the sense is different in Delhi)
• फ़लाना-ढिमकाना (falānā-ḍhimkānā), फ़लाना-ढिमका (falānā-ḍhimkā, “etc., whatever”)

Mumbai

• पांडु m (pāṇḍu), मामा m (māmā, “cop, policeman”)

Honestly too many, see CAT:Bombay Hindi.