پٹواری
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit *पट्टपालिन् (paṭṭapālin, literally “slab-keeper, cloth-keeper”). Equivalent to پَٹْوار (paṭvār) + ـی (-ī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pəʈ.ʋɑː.ɾiː/, /pəʈ.wɑː.ɾiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: پَٹ‧وا‧ری
Noun
پَٹْواری • (paṭvārī) m (Hindi spelling पटवारी)
- (Pakistani politics) a member or supporter of the PML-N party
- (by extension) a Tory, or a politically conservative person.
- a village accountant; patwari
Declension
| Declension of پٹواری | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | پٹواری (paṭvārī) | پٹواری (paṭvārī) |
| oblique | پٹواری (paṭvārī) | پٹواریوں (paṭvāriyō̃) |
| vocative | پٹواری (paṭvārī) | پٹواریو (paṭvāriyō) |
Further reading
- “پٹواری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “پٹواری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پٹواری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “پٿواري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 228
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “پتَواری”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 341
- John Shakespear (1834) “پٹواری”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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