چھتر

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• لِتَّر (littar) (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit छित्तरु (chittaru), from Sanskrit छित्त्वार (chittvará), from the root छिद् (chid). Cognate with Sindhi ڇِتَرُ (chitaru) / ڇِتَرِو (chitiro), Hindi छीतर (chītar), Gujarati છિપરું (chiprũ) and Marathi शित्री (śitrī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰɪt̪.t̪əɾə̆/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: چِھتْ‧تَر

Noun

چِھتَّر • (chittar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਛਿੱਤਰ)

1. (figuratively) beating
   • 2000, امین ملک [Amin Malik], گونگی تریہہ : کہانیاں [Gūngī treh : kahāṇiyān̲] (fiction), Lahore: ادارہ پنجابى زبان تے ثقافت [Idārah-yi Panjābī Zabān te S̲aqāfat], →OCLC, page 38:

     "چنگا کیتا ای‘ ایہ ہے ہی ذلیل چھتراں دے لائق۔"

     "caṉgā kītā ī’ eh hai hī ẕalīl chittrāṉ de lāyaq."

     "That was good of you’ he's only worthy of being disgraced [and] beatings".

2. (literally) old worn-out shoe, slipper

   Synonym: پولا (polā)

   • 1999, الیاس گھمن [Ilyās Ghumman], پنڈ دی لج : کہانیاں [Pinḍ dī laj : kahāṇiyān̲] (fiction), Lahore: ادارہ پنجابی زبان تے ثقافت [Idāra Panjābī Zabān Te S̲aqāfat], →OCLC, page 17:

     سگوں تہاڈیاں اَکھاں ساہمنے اوس لُچے نوں چِھتراں نال دَھونی وی لاواں گے۔"

     sagoṉ tuhāḍiyaṉ akkhāṉ sāhmṇe os lucce nūṉ chittrāṉ nāl dhauṇī vī lāvāṉ ge."

     In fact, we'll thrash this rascal with shoes and rip his guts out right in front of you.

Declension

Declension of چھتر
dir. sg.	چِھتَّر (chittar)
dir. pl.	چِھتَّر (chittar)
	singular	plural
direct	چِھتَّر (chittar)	چِھتَّر (chittar)
oblique	چِھتَّر (chittar)	چِھتَّراں (chittarāṉ)
vocative	چِھتَّرا (chittarā)	چِھتَّرو (chittaro)
ablative	چِھتَّروں (chittaroṉ)	—
locative	چِھتَّرے (chittare)	چِھتَّرِیں (chittarīṉ)
instrumental	چِھتَّرے (chittare)	چِھتَّرِیں (chittarīṉ)

See also

• چِھتْری (chitrī)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “چھِتّر”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “چھِتّر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “chittvará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 276