chunni

• chunari, chunri, chundari

Borrowed from Punjabi چُنّی (cunnī) / Punjabi ਚੁੰਨੀ (cunnī).

chunni (plural chunnis)

1. Synonym of dupatta – a long scarf worn by South Asian women.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 1:

     Her head was covered with a green and yellow bandhani chunni which was tucked into the cleavage of her blouse.

   • 2007 September 4, Tanzina Vega, “An Unorthodox Cabby on a Path Less Traveled”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     She no longer wears the scarf, called a chunni, while she works.

• dupatta

• Hunnic, nunchi

Greek-style (Christianised) spelling of the /k/ sound used instead of the Germanic spelling with ⟨k⟩. Compare Middle Dutch Kerst, Danish, Faroese, and Swedish Kristus, versus Dutch Christus, English Christ, and German Christus (which was Krist in Middle High German), for a parallel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkun.ni/

chunni n

1. alternative form of kunni