A Look at the Karlani Dialects of Paktia and Wardak - For Haris

[pashtanajan]

My Aunt (Uncle's) wife is Mangal, and all her children speak with this accent. At first, I couldn't wrap my head around it, but then I got used to it. But anyway, it's a really cute accent. I speak it with my cousin who has this accent for fun.

[pashtanajan]

do you know these words?lol

nengolay
peeteelay
churlandoo

nengolay= cooking
peeteelay= pot (used for cooking)

[Afghanistan2010]

I always got confused as a kid between gungata and tsingaha.
One is a ladybird, the other is a frog.

haha

mong gungata = ladybird ta wayu
ow

tsingaha = frog.

[Afghanistan2010]

Who knows these:

Gangata
Mangor
Guthmatun
Kanikabar

Gangata = ladybird
Mangor = Snake
Kanikabar = khabar wama hmm...

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

ladybug= no-wa
for frog we use = cher-mokh-kai
ladybird=Ive never seen one

Chermakhkai/chermashkai = lizard in our dialect.

Ladybird is what a ladybug is called in England.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

do you know what sho-pa-rock is?

Sounds a lot like khaparak which is bat.

Shaperak/khaperak/khaperakai/shaperakai/= bat, but we use a similar word for fairy, shaperaii.

In rural Pashto of Paktika and Waziristan, bat is "mashaam chamberrak".

[khushal]

Chermakhkai/chermashkai = lizard in our dialect.

Ladybird is what a ladybug is called in England.

I was wondering why everyone uses ladybird. thanks for the clarification.
But your right chermakhkai is lizard. tsingaha is frog. I mixed the two up.

hawk=she-yun
parrot= thothee
ant = mai-gia
lice= spaga
flea= raga
butterfly= ?

does anyone know the spaga raga story?

[RevolutionThroughReason]

I was wondering why everyone uses ladybird. thanks for the clarification.
But your right chermakhkai is lizard. tsingaha is frog. I mixed the two up.

hawk=she-yun
parrot= thothee
ant = mai-gia
lice= spaga
flea= raga
butterfly= ?

does anyone know the spaga raga story?

Butterfly ...we say Patannka ....but most of the time khaperak

[R3SISTANC3]

I was wondering why everyone uses ladybird. thanks for the clarification.
But your right chermakhkai is lizard. tsingaha is frog. I mixed the two up.

hawk=she-yun
parrot= thothee
ant = mai-gia
lice= spaga
flea= raga
butterfly= ?

does anyone know the spaga raga story?

Butterfly = Malmalak, but used specificaly for a Monarch
Moth/flies = Malkhay - Malkhee
Bedbug = Kotak

There are a few spaga story, I don't know about that one though.

[R3SISTANC3]

General fly = mach
Mosquito = masse/maisee
Dragonfly = theelay
Wasp = machkay/machka'yee
Hornet = qabail machkay - the one with yellow stripes and red

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

General fly = mach
Mosquito = masse/maisee
Dragonfly = theelay
Wasp = machkay/machka'yee
Hornet = qabail machkay - the one with yellow stripes and red

fly = mach
mosquito = masha

don't know the others.

Butterfly ...we say Patannka ....but most of the time khaperak

We say patang.

I was wondering why everyone uses ladybird. thanks for the clarification.
But your right chermakhkai is lizard. tsingaha is frog. I mixed the two up.

hawk=she-yun
parrot= thothee
ant = mai-gia
lice= spaga
flea= raga
butterfly= ?

does anyone know the spaga raga story?

hawk = bakha
parrot = toti
ant = mezhaii
lice = spazha

Never had to deal with fleas in Pashto

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

Haha, excellent you son of gun, first time some one from the net that got it!

We use it for crab.

There is a man that raised me who is like a father to me, he is from Dir.
He used to tell me stories about his father going to "Bengal" for work and he ate crab there once, that is how I know this word.

[pashtun_rise]

Butterfly = Malmalak, but used specificaly for a Monarch
Moth/flies = Malkhay - Malkhee
Bedbug = Kotak

There are a few spaga story, I don't know about that one though.

We use malkhay for grass hopper.
Lady bird= nami chacha and some other word i forgot
Cockroach=sur ghonghat
Snake = mangor
Rabbit=khargosh and soya both are used
bedbug=same as kotak
Crab=kunikabar
Yours matches us alot...probably becuase of same tribe.Khushal too knows alot...m however learning new dialects from posts like that of hakeem khan...theirs quite diverge lang..

[MostafaM]

Mangal dialect is almost the same as Zazai dialect.

We just use "yey" instead of "wo" or "au" which means "Yes".

My Zazai friends make fun of me whenever I say "yey" and call Mangal dialect "Compton Pashto" with the reference to "Yeah Yeah" talking in Rap Music.

[Khostai]

Butterfly was shamparaka I tought???

And mangal don't say ye ye, Tanai peopel use that.....