پرچھاواں

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀧𑀟𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀸𑀬𑀸 (paḍicchāyā), from Sanskrit प्रतिच्छाया (praticchāyā).

Cognates

Cognate with Saraiki پِچھاواں (pichāvāṉ), Urdu پَرْچھان٘وَاں (parchā̃vā̃) / Urdu پَرْچھائِیں (parchāī̃), Hindi परछाईं (parchāī̃) and Gujarati પડછાયો (paḍchāyo).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /pəɾ.t͡ʃä.ʋä̃ː/, [pɐɾᵊ.t͡ʃäː.ʋä̃ː]
    • (colloquial, dialectal) IPA(key): [pɐɾᵊ.ʃäː.ʋä̃ː]
  • Rhymes: -ä̃ː
  • Hyphenation: پَر‧چھا‧واں

Noun

پَرْچھاواں • (parchāvāṉ) m

  1. shadow, shade; reflection
    Synonym: سایَہ (sāyah)
  2. influence (of peers, circle or evil spirits etc.)
    Synonym: سایَہ (sāyah)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “پرچھاواں”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • “ਪਰਛਾਵਾਂ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “praticchāyā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.