What is your favourite word in Pashto?

[Elias]

Y?

You don't know the meaning of bismillah and where to use it.

[Nekrofrost]

You're a bacha baaz pedophile who can't handle being a baby sitter for a kid because you get aroused sick pervert

So you got babysitted by maneatinglizard?

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

LEMA/لیمه
Although 'Starga' is more commonly used, 'Lema' falls sweet on my ear(and heart)!

well they don't mean the same thing, lema is the pupil and sterga is the eyeball itself.

[زده کوونکی]

My Pashto is 20% out of 100%

And 20% percent of the Pashto I speak is is Persian an other 20 % of my Pashto is arabi . So technically my Pashto is only 60% real Pashto lol.

I can have simple Pashto conversation , laka tsangiya am che to ye am abel shan am . Apart from that . Zma Pashto maat dai. Lolololol. I might never fully master the zjuba. But then again, me being a dispora Pashtun , makes Pashto useless in my country. Neither does my family speak it anymore , I only know Pashto because my grandparents can't speak English . After their death,(bismialla) Pashto technically becomes extinct in my family line. Neither do I personally know any pashtuns, neither is there many Pashtuns . Not that I know of at least.

God your Pashto language skills are appalling for someone carrying the great Nurzai tribal name. Out of pure respect for your ancestors and the great region of Kandahar, I am willing to help you learn fluent Kandahari Pashto for free. Pashto is also extinct within in my nuclear family after the demise of my grandparents but I have relations back home who are fluent and since I grew up there, I managed to learn enough Pashto.

[زده کوونکی]

Fun fact: Kandahari Pashto and Mandarin Chinese have the same word for "good".

Pashto spelling: ښه
Pinyin spelling: shi

Both pronounced the same way

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

Fun fact: Kandahari Pashto and Mandarin Chinese have the same word for "good".

Pashto spelling: ښه
Pinyin spelling: shi

Both pronounced the same way

nope, We say Schaww not Sheeeee

[زده کوونکی]

nope, We say Schaww not Sheeeee

The Chinese also say it the same way, they just spell it "shi" because the final "i" in Pinyin represents the same vowel sound as the "gerda hey" or schwa of Pashto.

Interestingly, another word they use in Mandarin for "good" is "hao" which is pronounced similar to the "kha" of Pakhto.

[Pakthun345]

Chinese and Pashto

Assalamu alaykum and hello,

Dear brothers,

"Hu" means good, noble, holy in Avestan.
Chinese has some similarities with Pashto.

I will give you guys a clue. Chinese has some similarities to Paktho because of the origin of Pakhtuns. I am not saying Pakthuns are Mongolians or Chinese. I cnt tell you more as it is part of my work. Alhamdulilah.

Manana

[Traveller]

well they don't mean the same thing, lema is the pupil and sterga is the eyeball itself.

Really? I always thought they were the same thing.

[Nurzai]

God your Pashto language skills are appalling for someone carrying the great Nurzai tribal name. Out of pure respect for your ancestors and the great region of Kandahar, I am willing to help you learn fluent Kandahari Pashto for free. Pashto is also extinct within in my nuclear family after the demise of my grandparents but I have relations back home who are fluent and since I grew up there, I managed to learn enough Pashto.

Haha Kandahari LOL no, Not trying to spill the beans but my family is well known from one end of Afg to the other end of Paki and many of family members have suffered kidnap and ransom for millions by talib because of the most powerful surname we held . So ya , close to kandahar but not quite . But of course nurzai.

And about the Pashto , I appreciate your concern and willingness to help a brother out. I don't understand how it would work though? I'm guessing private message right? in that case great . Thanks a lot . I'll just ask you in private message for help . So If i want to know a scentence which I don't know ill just message you .

Btw what's your profile name? When I try to read I think it says zrah kanakaway. Lol I'm probably wrong

[Pakthun345]

Pashto/Paktho "wona/wana"

Assalamu alaykum and hello,

The Pashto word for tree ie. wona/wana.
In the English language "banyan" tree is a tropical Indian fig tree. Also called ficus benghalensis. "Banyan" is the merchant's tree, from Portuguese "banian", Hindu merchant, from Gujarati "vaniyo", from Sanskrit "vanijah". This is related to "wen" in Indo-European roots.

Also, we have "vana" in the Rig-Veda which means single tree, forest, timber.
In Hindi "ban" is a forest. In Kashmiri "wan" is a forest. In Old Sinhalese "van" is a tree.

So, we see three forms with v, w, and b.

Manana

[زده کوونکی]

Haha Kandahari LOL no, Not trying to spill the beans but my family is well known from one end of Afg to the other end of Paki and many of family members have suffered kidnap and ransom for millions by talib because of the most powerful surname we held . So ya , close to kandahar but not quite . But of course nurzai.

And about the Pashto , I appreciate your concern and willingness to help a brother out. I don't understand how it would work though? I'm guessing private message right? in that case great . Thanks a lot . I'll just ask you in private message for help . So If i want to know a scentence which I don't know ill just message you .

Btw what's your profile name? When I try to read I think it says zrah kanakaway. Lol I'm probably wrong

Hahah that's cool. Kidnapping by Talibs - that's awful, I can't imagine what your family members must have gone through. I know a guy that got kidnapped in Peshawar and he was never able to recover from it. I guess that's the price you have to pay to be rich and famous in a poor and devastated country.

BTW I mean when I say Kandahar, in the historical sense, it includes almost all of the surrounding areas as well, like Ruzgan, Zabul, Helmand, Zhob, etc

yeah sure, PM could work if you want.

My profile is zdah-kawunkay which means one who learns or student.

[Pakthun345]

Pashto "Panra"

Assalamu alaykum and hello,

The Pashto word "panra" ie. "leaf" of a tree or plant, etc.
In the English language we have the word "fern". A "fern" is a non-flowering vascular plant of the class "Filicinae", having "fronds" and reproducing by spores. A "frond" can be a leaf of a "fern".

"Fern" is from Old English "fearn", Middle Dutch "vaeren", Old High German "farn", Sanskrit "parna" leaf/feather. This is from Indo-European root "per-".
"Parna" is plumage, foliage of tree, betel leaf in the Rig-Veda.
"Pana" is a leaf in Pali, Prakrit, "pan" is a leaf especially of a tree in Kashmiri.
"Paan" is a leaf in Hindi, and "panna" is a leaf/page in Hindi.

Manana

[زده کوونکی]

Assalamu alaykum and hello,

The Pashto word "panra" ie. "leaf" of a tree or plant, etc.
In the English language we have the word "fern". A "fern" is a non-flowering vascular plant of the class "Filicinae", having "fronds" and reproducing by spores. A "frond" can be a leaf of a "fern".

"Fern" is from Old English "fearn", Middle Dutch "vaeren", Old High German "farn", Sanskrit "parna" leaf/feather. This is from Indo-European root "per-".
"Parna" is plumage, foliage of tree, betel leaf in the Rig-Veda.
"Pana" is a leaf in Pali, Prakrit, "pan" is a leaf especially of a tree in Kashmiri.
"Paan" is a leaf in Hindi, and "panna" is a leaf/page in Hindi.

Manana

Dera manana wror jana. Za da staso pohana tsakha bekhi ziyat mutasir saway yam... I knew Pashto پاڼه and Urdu/Hindi پان (paan - betel leaf and panna = "page") were cognates but I had never even considered that English fern could be related.

[Pakthun345]

All languages are related.

Assalamu alaykum and hello,

Dear brother all languages are related. Alhamdulilah.

There is even the equivalent of "Pakhtun" in English. I apologise as I cnt disclose everything as it is part of my work which needs to be published, Insha Allah.

Manana