Pashto equivalents for Urdu and English words used in Pashto as spoken in Pakistan

[زده کوونکی]

Dear readers,

As we all know in Pakistan, colloquial and even formal Pashto, to an extent, has many loanwords from Urdu and English, some of which already have native Pashto equivalents.

I will be posting a story in the Quetta dialect (in the Latin script because it is a sample of spoken Pashto).

The first part of the story is below:

Tso wakht lamakh za pa forest department ki woma aw dore me da naukarano pa sar supervisor lagedali woma. Da khalko ba pa ghra ki kaddan kshal aw pa ghra ki ba ye pa daa kaddyano ki bedz eshawi, da de maksad daa wo sa pa daa ghro ki tsa drakhte rashne si. Za har sahar raporta som aw kora sa ba bus stop ta wlaram. Bus stop sa ba za pa bus ke kshenastam aw pa nima ganta ke ba Barori ta warasedam…

What do you think the Pashto equivalents (or any possible neologisms) of the following would be:

1) Forest Department
2) Supervisor
3) Bus Stop
4) Bus
5) Ganta or genta - from Urdu ghanta. Many object to its use but the other word for hour, "sa'at" is from Arabic so neither are true Pastho words.

King regards,
A

[salman47]

1) Zangal tsanga

[Akbar]

Urdu has borrowed words from Pashto.
An example is garay(wheel) which inurdu means car.

[Kakar-Wardak]

We don't pronounce hour as ghainta, but Qhainta, all though the similarities are obvious they are not observed when spoken.

[Samandri]

I hope you are not searching Pashto words for Mobile Phone , Machine, Passport , Bank , truck, tractor etc. I consider such obsession as unreal-ism, extremism and stupidity.

The hour in Pashto is pronounced differently from Urdu's. In Urdu its "gunt-ha", in Pashto we say "gainta".

Car is a western invention but Pashtuns do not call it car. We shorten it to "motar" (as in motor car), or call it "gaaday" (which is also used for any other vehicle).

[Elias]

I hope you are not searching Pashto words for Mobile Phone , Machine, Passport , Bank , truck, tractor etc. I consider such obsession as unreal-ism, extremism and stupidity.

The hour in Pashto is pronounced differently from Urdu's. In Urdu its "gunt-ha", in Pashto we say "gainta".

Car is a western invention but Pashtuns do not call it car. We shorten it to "motar" (as in motor car), or call it "gaaday" (which is also used for any other vehicle).

Many people associate gaaday with horse-drawn carriage.
Is gaaday used as synonym for motar in Pashtunkhwa?

[Akbar]

Many people associate gaaday with horse-drawn carriage.
Is gaaday used as synonym for motar in Pashtunkhwa?

From my understanding garray means or meant wheel.
That would be called khar/asp garray.

In pukhtunkhwa garray means car.
Train is called oorgarray.

You could be right that it means carriage.

[Elias]

From my understanding garray means or meant wheel.
That would be called khar/asp garray.

In pukhtunkhwa garray means car.
Train is called oorgarray.

You could be right that it means carriage.

I’ve always thought gaaday/gaady is this thing here

[Traveller]

I’ve always thought gaaday/gaady is this thing here

That's a tanga(ټانګه).

[salman47]

That's a tanga(ټانګه).

Another word will be 'Bagay'/'بګۍ'(used mostly in the Afghanistan side).
Don't if it's a cognate with English(Buggy) or a borrowing.

[Samandri]

Many people associate gaaday with horse-drawn carriage.
Is gaaday used as synonym for motar in Pashtunkhwa?

My understanding is that gaaday (ګاډے) can be used for any vehicle or carriage including tanga (horse-drawn carriage).

[Sarbani]

Another word will be 'Bagay'/'بګۍ'(used mostly in the Afghanistan side).
Don't if it's a cognate with English(Buggy) or a borrowing.

It's a borrowing.

[Sarbani]

Urdu has borrowed words from Pashto.
An example is garay(wheel) which inurdu means car.

Nope. Urdu hasn't borrowed any words from Pashto. The word "gaade" in Pashto is actually a borrowing from Urdu, which inherited it from Sanskrit.

گاڑی - Wiktionary

[salman47]

Nope. Urdu hasn't borrowed any words from Pashto. The word "gaade" in Pashto is actually a borrowing from Urdu, which inherited it from Sanskrit.

گاڑی - Wiktionary

I think after Pakistan, Urdu speakers started borrowing words from Pashto. I think there was a list of such words somewhere on the internet. Also I have heard them use some very unique Pashto words.('kuna' e.g.) makes me very confused sometimes.

[Sarbani]

I think after Pakistan, Urdu speakers started borrowing words from Pashto. I think there was a list of such words somewhere on the internet. Also I have heard them use some very unique Pashto words.('kuna' e.g.) makes me very confused sometimes.

Urdu hasn't borrowed any words from Pashto. That's just Pakistani propaganda try to make Urdu look more like a neutral Pan-Pakistani language. All the "Pashto loanwords in Urdu" are just Perso-Arabic loanwords that exist in both languages.

I've never heard "kuna" being said. A select few folk that had contact with Pashtuns growing up may use it, but it's not considered an Urdu word and far from commonly used.