پدھر
Punjabi
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit *𑀧𑀤𑁆𑀥𑀭 (*paddhara).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: páddar IPA(key): /pə˦d̪.d̪əɾ/, [pɐ˦d̪.d̪əɾᵊ]
Noun
پَدَّھر • (paddhar) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਪੱਧਰ)
- level; standard, measure (ie. quality etc.)
- Synonym: مِعیْار (miʻyār)
- level; scale
- Synonym: سَطَح (sat̤aḥ)
- 1979, شاہْباز مَلِک [śāhbāz malik], نِتارے : کھوج دے پَرَکھ [nitāre : khoj de parakh][1]:
- ایہہ داراں اوہ نیں جیہڑیاں پہلے مغل دور توں پہلاں پہلاں پنجاب وچ عوامی پدّھر تے چالو سن
- eh oh dārāṉ neṉ jehṛiyāṉ pahle muġal daur toṉ pahlāṉ pahlāṉ paṉjāb vicc 'avāmī paddhar te cālū san
- These are those which commenced in the Punjab on a public level during the Mughal period
- open plains (ie. plain land)
- (literally) levelness, evenness
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | پَدَّھر (paddahr) | پَدَّھراں (paddahrāṉ) |
| oblique | پَدَّھر (paddahr) | پَدَّھراں (paddahrāṉ) |
| vocative | پَدَّھرے (paddahre) | پَدَّھرو (paddahro) |
| ablative | پَدَّھروں (paddahroṉ) | پَدَّھراں (paddahrāṉ) |
| locative | پَدَّھری (paddahrī) | پَدَّھرِیں (paddahrīṉ) |
| instrumental | پَدَّھرِیں (paddahrīṉ) | پَدَّھرے (paddahre) |
See also
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “پدھَّر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz, page 547
- Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “پدھر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
- “ਪੱਧਰ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*paddhara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 438