چنی

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀘𑀼𑀡𑁆𑀡 (cuṇṇa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit चूर्ण (cūrṇa).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʊn.niː/, [t͡ʃʊ̃n.niː]
• Rhymes: -iː

چُنّی • (cunnī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੁੰਨੀ)

1. scarf, dupatta

   Synonym: دوپَٹَّا (dopaṭṭā)

   • 1958, احمد راہی [Ahmad Rahi], “میری چُنّی دِیاں ریشَمی تَنْداں [merī cunnī dīyāṉ reśamī tandāṉ]”, in جَٹّی [jaṭṭī], performed by زُبَیدَہ خانَم [zubaidah xānam]:

     میری چُنّی دِیاں ریشَمی تَنْداں
     مَیں گُھٹّ گُھٹّ دینی آں گَنْڈھاں کِہ چَنّا تیری یاد نا بُھلّے

     merī cunnī dīyāṉ reśmī tandāṉ
     maiṉ ghuṭṭ ghuṭṭ denī āṉ ganḍhāṉ kih cannā terī yād nā bhulle

     The threads of my silky scarf
     I knot them all so tightly, lest, my love, your memories fade

• → English: chunni

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “چُنّی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਚੁੰਨੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “cūrṇa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press