سنیچر
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi سنیچر (sanīcar) (c. 1695),[1] from Prakrit 𑀲𑀡𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀭 (saṇiccara), likely from Sanskrit *शनैश्चर (*śanaiścara), from शनि (śani) + चर (cara).[2] Cognate with Punjabi چَھنِچَّھر (chanicchar) / ਛਨਿੱਛਰ (chanicchar), Sindhi ڇَنْڇَرُ (chancharu).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sə.niː.t͡ʃəɾ/
- Rhymes: -əɾ
- Hyphenation: سَ‧نِی‧چَر
Proper noun
سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) m (Hindi spelling सनीचर)
Noun
سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) m (Hindi spelling सनीचर)
- (chiefly India) Saturday
- Synonym: ہَفْتَہ (hafta)
- (figuratively) bad luck
- (figuratively, obsolete) poverty; dirt; dirty clothes[4]
- (by extension) a miser or stingy / gluttonous person[3][4]
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) |
| oblique | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) | سَنِیچَروں (sanīcarõ) |
| vocative | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) | سَنِیچَرو (sanīcaro) |
See also
| Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār) | مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) | بُدھ (budh) | جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt) | جُمْعَہ (jum'a) | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba) | اِتْوَار (itvār) |
References
- ^ “سنیچر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śanaiścara-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “سنیچر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Platts, John T. (1884) “سنيچر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 689
Further reading
More information
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنيچو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 388
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “سنيچر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 787
- John Shakespear (1834) “سنیچر”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC