Animal names in Pashto

[Michin Khel]

Also yousafzai dialect is standard pashto not kandahari, waziristani, bannuchi, wardaki etc

[Michin Khel]

I have studied pashto...i dont have pashto fonts in keyboard...and its difficult to write pashto in roman... also i was writing in my own dialect, i dont care about standard yousafzi pashto.

[Feroza_Banu]

^you need some history lessons... but if you were interested in your own history you would have cared to study it... but ALas it doesn't seem like the case... lets not ruin this thread...


moving on

Lizard = كربوړى... karborray

[Michin Khel]

^history?

Grass hopper= mlukh

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Also yousafzai dialect is standard pashto not kandahari, waziristani, bannuchi, wardaki etc

Yea you are right in Pakhtunkhwa Yousafzai dialect is the standard.....

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

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

The insect which is always attracted by the light , lamp, candle etc at night is what we called a patang......Urdu daan warta "Parwana" wayee....In pashto poetry usually this patang is vastly used not the butterfly....

Malang Jaan baba says:

پتنګ د بلې شمعې يار دے
بلبل د ګلو خريدار دے

د لېلا دوه سترګې مجنون پېژني
د ازادۍ قيمت پښتون پېژني

In the first line Patang's love for Shama(candle) is described .....and we all know butterfly is the lover of flowers not light.

Pa dranavee,
Yousafzai

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

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.

In pakhtunkhwa it is "ass" with a shorter "a" sound.....don't know how pashtuns of afghanistan pronounce it.....We only use "Alif mud" for words that have come out of urdu like "Aayenda" meaning "next time" or "Aab o hawa"(climate) infact in pakhtunkhwa we have no word that starts with a longer sound of "a" i.e Aaa.

thanks,
Yousafzai

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

bee= machai (they are of various types : sra machai(red bee), Dandaara machai (the one with yellow & brown lines) , Zbarga machay (which usually don't sting) and shaato machai (honey bee) etc.
spider= gharna
scorpian= larram
fly= much
mosquito= maisay (in Yousafzai dialect it is Maashey)
worm= chimjay (Chinjey)
butterfly= peepal
beetle= kakai

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[Nokia_Apridy]

DAr kha Lagya yu yp LUFFY jana HaHa sta hem mannnnnna rora

[Michin Khel]

I actually made an exuse to run away from the further humiliation so dont feel hurt

[Feroza_Banu]

The insect which is always attracted by the light , lamp, candle etc at night is what we called a patang......Urdu daan warta "Parwana" wayee....In pashto poetry usually this patang is vastly used not the butterfly....

Malang Jaan baba says:

پتنګ د بلې شمعې يار دے
بلبل د ګلو خريدار دے

د لېلا دوه سترګې مجنون پېژني
د ازادۍ قيمت پښتون پېژني

In the first line Patang's love for Shama(candle) is described .....and we all know butterfly is the lover of flowers not light.

Pa dranavee,
Yousafzai

OH thank you for claring it up... it makes sense

In pakhtunkhwa it is "ass" with a shorter "a" sound.....don't know how pashtuns of afghanistan pronounce it.....We only use "Alif mud" for words that have come out of urdu like "Aayenda" meaning "next time" or "Aab o hawa"(climate) infact in pakhtunkhwa we have no word that starts with a longer sound of "a" i.e Aaa.

thanks,
Yousafzai

In Afghanistan it is pronounced with longer aa and it is written with alif mad..

[Feroza_Banu]

I actually made an exuse to run away from the further humiliation so dont feel hurt

ok... if thats the case... i deleted my post... i don't mean to insult anyone here.

[Michin Khel]

Pig = sodarr (though many people use arabic word khanzeer)

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Parrot -----Tothi طوطي
Nightingale-----Balbala بلبله
Sparrow-----Charchanha چرچڼه
Peacock-----Taawas طاؤس

[Michin Khel]

Alternative for Peacock= maighor mor

tawaas is farsi word