ویہت
Punjabi
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit वितस्ता (vitástā).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: vét IPA(key): /ʋeː˦t̪/, [ʋeː˩˥t̪ᵊ]
Proper noun
ویہَت • (vehat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਵਿਹਤ or ਵੇਹਤ)
- Jhelum (a river in the Punjab of Pakistan and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India)
- Synonym: جِہْلَم (jihlam)
- 2015, سعید بُھٹا [Saʻīd Bhuṭṭah], کمال کہانی [Kamāl kahāṇī, An Excellent Story], 2nd edition (fiction), Lahore: سانجھ [sānjh], →ISBN, page 41:
- چار مہینے گُزر گئے۔ سکندر نوں ویہت نہیں لنگھن دِتا
- cār mahīne guzar ga'e. sakandar nūṉ vehat laṉghaṇ nahīṉ dittā
- Four months had passed. Sikandar wasn't [allowed to be] able to cross the [river] Jhelum
Further reading
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vitástā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 682