Pakhto Vocabulary: Words and their Meanings

[Feroza_Banu]

^thanks!... yes its zhobann and many people don't know it!

yes bagh wahsh is Dari/Farsi.

what is the word for "kitchen" in pashto?

[Palwan]

pakhalnazai?

[Palwan]

What is the pure Pashto word for culture?

[Feroza_Banu]

pakhlanzai is correct!... GOOD JOB!

and sorry i don't know the culture one... i have heard it referred to as "ananaat" or "parhang" ... do u know?

[Palwan]

Parhang seems like it would be correct since in Farsi/Dari the pure word for it is Farhang.

Never heard of ananaat, though.

[Palwan]

The Pashto word for tradition/custom is dod, I think. Rawaaj is an Arabic loanword.

[Feroza_Banu]

^oh damn!... i knew this!!!... i had read it in a translation book!

thanks alot!

P.S. ananaat is also used by pashtoon poets.

what is the pashto word for "eastern" and "western"

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

I think for Eastern they use "Khateez" , have read it in an afghan magazine......don't know about "Western" mung kho warta mashriqi au maghribi waayu.......

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

What is the pure Pashto word for culture?

We says "Kaltur", Dood dastoor is another word used here....

[Palwan]

west = لويديځ

east = ختيځ

mashriq and maghrib are arabic words, although could be more commonly used than their pure pashto counterparts

[Feroza_Banu]

I think for Eastern they use "Khateez" , have read it in an afghan magazine......don't know about "Western" mung kho warta mashriqi au maghribi waayu.......

yeap khateedz (good job! )
and lwadeedz

west = لويديځ

east = ختيځ

mashriq and maghrib are arabic words, although could be more commonly used than their pure pashto counterparts

Bravooooooooooooooooooooooo! palwaan... rishtya che palwaan ye lol

ok... what is pashto word for "observe" or "observing"

[Feroza_Banu]

^the word for observe is "tsaar"...

the observer is called "tsaronkay"

what is the pashto word for "kidney"

[Palwan]

Fundamentally, the problem I think is that since spoken Pashto varies in pronunciation a bit from its written counterpart, what happens as a result is that people will tend to forget the original, correct spelling of words and instead write them down phonetically, ie based on that corrupted sound.

Tomorrow, I'll head to my uni's library and present proof from original sources that khateez and lwaideez are both correctly written with dzeem. Luckily, the libraries here have a good number of Pashto books, the majority of which incidentally were published in Pekhawar.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Fundamentally, the problem I think is that since spoken Pashto varies in pronunciation a bit from its written counterpart, what happens as a result is that people will tend to forget the original, correct spelling of words and instead write them down phonetically, ie based on that corrupted sound.

Tomorrow, I'll head to my uni's library and present proof from original sources that khateez and lwaideez are both correctly written with dzeem. Luckily, the libraries here have a good number of Pashto books, the majority of which incidentally were published in Pekhawar.

The problem is not that of spoken pashto and written pashto......actually people don't follow rules made by our masharan......We have an excellent grammer using which one can judge whether the word is correct or wrong.......For example we have a word "Khkula" that originally came from Afghanistan and is widely used in Pakhtunkhwaa also....The word is used for beauty/khaayest.....I work in pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board.....I was assigned the task of composing the manuscript of new Textbooks to be implemented in the next academic year......after composing the manuscript a meeting was held for checking the the manuscript in which 5 PH.D doctors participated and they made some corrections with red ink.....once again i was ordered to make the corrections i noticed that the word "Khkula" was replaced with "khayist" everywhere........a days later i asked Dr. Zubair Hasrat (Subject Specialist Pashto Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board) about the word that why Khkula was replaced with Khayist ? is there any difference between the two? He smiled and said no, there is no difference between the two but the former is introduced by pashtuns of Afghanistan and can't be found anywhere in old pashto books and in the poetry of our great poets like Khushal baba and others.....He further explained to me that "Zaledal" is a masdar which means "to twinkle" and "Zala" is made of it which means twinkling.....if they want to make a new word they should should extract it from its Masdar.......but Khkula has no masdar......that is why we don't want to use this word because its against the rules of our pashto grammer.......He said there of tons of new words that came from Afghanistan that are made against considering the rules of grammer.....Another example that he gave me was : pashtuns in Afghanistan say: Roosaan (russians) while it is Roosyaan because it is a rule that you will add alif and noon with the singular word like Roosey, Pakistaney etc.....on the other hand Afghanistanis say Amricanyan, pakistanyan why not they say amreekaan, pakistanaan etc like roosaan....? Becuase they apply no rules that is why there is always confusion there.........
Now came back to Khateez
Palwan have you heard the following words:
د غرۀ نه غرئيز
د سندرې نه سندريز
د اړخ نه اړخيز
د اتاني نه اتانيز
د انې نه انيز

It is a rule of grammer that to show nisbat of these word with their original word one would add (ئيز or يز) at the end of the word......
Same is the case with Khateez it is made of "khatal"(nmar khaata') by adding yeez at the end......Graana i have found it with Zey in Daryab dictionary also found it in many books written by afghan scholars.....Oss hummm ka' taso pa dey zid ye che daa takey pa zeem sara sahi dey noo za' sa' na' wayam maa da pakhto grammer rules da misaaloono pa laara taso ta wraandey kral.....au zama yaqeen dey che dagha bara tol words ba taso leedalee au auredalee wee.....
Manana

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

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Tomorrow, I'll head to my uni's library and present proof from original sources that khateez and lwaideez are both correctly written with dzeem.

Palwan i think you are also from Afghanistan......Taso au Feroza khorjaana bayad che awal khpalo ke ittefaq ukrai che daa torey Dzeem wayaley shee au ka' Dzey(as she said).