Animal names in Pashto

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Let's write animals name in Pashto.....
Here are some in alphabetic order.....

Ant = Megey (مېږے)

Bat = Khaaperak (ښاپېرک)

Bear = Melo/balu (مېلو)

Butterfly = perparakey/babozey (پرپرکے يا ببوزے)

Camel = Ookh (اوښ)

Cat = Peesho (پيشو)

Chicken = chargootey (چرګوټے)

Crow = Kaargha' (کارغۀ)

Deer = hoosay (هوسۍ)

Dog = Spey (سپے)

Donkey = Khar (خر)

Dove = Karkoorhay (کرکوړۍ)

Duck = Batha (بطه)

Eagle = Baaz (باز)

Fox = Loombarha (لومبړه)

Frog = Cheendakh (چيندخ)

Goat = Chelay (چېلۍ يا بيزه)

Horse = asss (اس)

Jackal = Geedarh (ګيدړ)

Lion = Zmarey (زمرے)

Monkey = Shaado/beezo (شادو يا بيزو)

Rabbit = Soya (سويه)

Rat = Mangak/Maga (منږک يا مږه)

Sheep = Gadda (ګډه)

Snake = Maar (مار)

Spider = Jola/jolaagey (جولا يا جولاګے)

Tiger = Prhaang (پړانګ)

Wolf = sharmakh (شرمخ)

[Feroza_Banu]

Salam... dera manena...

a couple of things

Dog = Spai and plural Spee

Ant = Maigai plural = maigee

Spider asli pa Pashto kei = Ghanna غڼه


Sheep Alternate = Psa


Horse = AAS with Alif mud آس

chicken = Ghirga

Roaster = Chrig

Duck Alternative = Hailai

Rat : Mughak or Mugak or Muzhak موږک

Goat = Wuz (male) and (Wuza) Female and Wazgorray (baby Goat)

Butterfly = Patang!

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

W Salaam! Starhey mashey!

Salam... dera manena...

a couple of things

Dog = Spai and plural Spee

Ant = Maigai plural = maigee

Spider asli pa Pashto kei = Ghanna غڼه
(Zamong da pashto laksha che darta desi khkaari..... Jola mung pakhto ke weaver ta wayu "somebody who weaves" Spider humm zaan dapara weaving kayee so we also called him Jola ya jolagey)

Sheep Alternate = Psa (yea have heard it)


Horse = AAS with Alif mud آس
(in old imla we had this "alif mud" but in new imla it has been abandoned because it can only be used in urdu .....Like they say Aasman (آسمان) and in pashto it will be simply "Asman" (اسمان) they say آم and in pashti it is ام so it is of no use now....)
chicken = Ghirga

Roaster = Chrig

Duck Alternative = Hailai (A type of Duch wh
ich flies in the air is what we called Hailay, BTW Duck/Batha can't fly high)

Rat : Mughak or Mugak or Muzhak موږک

Goat = Wuz (male) and (Wuza) Female and Wazgorray (baby Goat)

Butterfly = Patang!

Manana,
Yousafzai

[spogmai shaglay]

Butterfly isnt Lolaka??????i had read in one of the books...then whats lolaka?????

[Michin Khel]

@Feroza banu

it seems to me that kandahari pashto is mixture of kheen and sheen dialect, its not pure sheen dialect like marwats.

[Michin Khel]

wasp= bambara
bee= machai
spider= gharna
scorpian= larram
fly= much
mosquito= maisay
worm= chimjay
butterfly= peepal
beetle= kakai

[Michin Khel]

Eagle= baaz
Vultpture= daing
crow= kaagha
pigeon= kawtara
dow= babogha
sparrow= marghai
owl= kong
hen= charga
duck= patakha

[Feroza_Banu]

W Salaam! Starhey mashey!



Manana,
Yousafzai

Khair wosay


The Alif mad should not be ommitted at all because Pashto didn't come out of Urdu but rather Urdu is influenced by pashto, arabic, Farsi/Dari... we shouldn't be changing our way of writing because Urdu is borrowing it from us...

There are many many words that use "alif mud"... and when pashtoons pronounce that word they actually pronounce it as "AAA"

the word "aas" (horse) is pronounced exactly with "alif mad" with a longer "a" sound.

[Michin Khel]

sheep= maizha
goat= wuza
camel= osh
donkey= khar
deer= nalkasha
bat= khochay/asmaan chakalay
cat= pishai
lion= zmaray
wolf= laywo
bear= eezh
snake= maar
horse= aspa
cow= ghwa
buffalo= masha
rat= mazhakoray/mzhak

[Feroza_Banu]

@Feroza banu

it seems to me that kandahari pashto is mixture of kheen and sheen dialect, its not pure sheen dialect like marwats.

how did you conclude this?

Kandahari pashto is pure Sheen Dielect.... it is the original dielect of Pashto.

[Feroza_Banu]

Butterfly is patang? patang is also for kite in Urdu.

Patang is commonly used in Afghanistan and it is used vastly in Pashto Poetry.

[Feroza_Banu]

wasp= bambara
bee= machai
spider= gharna
scorpian= larram
fly= much
mosquito= maisay
worm= chimjay
butterfly= peepal
beetle= kakai

Mosquito = Ghomasha
Bee Alternative = Machmachai (commonly used in Afghanistan..

[Feroza_Banu]

I have a question though...

are we trying to learn the formal pashto here or are we trying to learn different commonly spoken dielects.

If you study Dari, the formal written Dari is very different than the spoken one... the same is the case for Pashto... each region could have their own dielect and their own way of pronouncing each word... but formal pashto is same.

if we are only learning different dielects and not formal pashto then i won't correct anyone.

for example... Fox = Lewa... and its writte "laam" "yaa" "waw" and "hay"

Luffy here has written "laywo" it could be his dielect... and i understand but formally we cant write it "laywo"...

I don't wanna sound like a principle here going around correcting things if we are only concerned about dialects and not formally written pashto.

[Michin Khel]

Kandahari pashto is pure Sheen Dielect.... it is the original dielect of Pashto.

I have been observing pashto of kandahari members and i have noted that they use lot of words of yousafzi dialect.
forexample in your first post in this thread you have used maigi for ants and magak for rat while it should be maizhi and mzhak in sheen pashto.

for fox we use lomarra and laywo for wolf (plurl= lewan). there is no standard dialect yet

[Feroza_Banu]

^i wasn't writing in Kandahari dielects in my first post... did i say i was?

the reason why you call it lewoo is because you haven't been taught pashto in your school... if you had studied it in your books you wouldn't call it lewoo... its written Lewa and plural is lewaan

no offense.