سنیچر

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (saṇiccara), likely from Sanskrit शनैश्चर (†*śanaiścara-), see शनि (śani). Cognate with Punjabi چَھنِچَّھر (chanicchar) / ਛਨਿੱਛਰ (chanicchar) and Sindhi ڇَنْڇَرُ (čhančharu).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.niː.t͡ʃəɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: سَ‧نِی‧چَر

Noun

سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) m (Hindi spelling सनीचर)

1. (astronomy) the planet Saturn
2. Saturday

   Synonym: ہَفْتَہ (hafta)

3. (astrology) the name of a god
4. (figuratively) dirt; poverty

Declension

Declension of سنیچر
	singular	plural
direct	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)
oblique	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)	سَنِیچَروں (sanīcarō̃)
vocative	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)	سَنِیچَرو (sanīcarō)

Adjective

سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling सनीचर) (figuratively)

1. ill-luck, misfortunate person
2. dirty
3. miserable; stingy

See also

Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
اِتْوَار (itvār)	پِیر (pīr)	مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)	بُدھ (budh)	جُمْعَرات (jum'arāt)	جُمْعَہ (jum'a)	ہَفْتَہ (hafta)

Further reading

• “سنیچر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سنیچر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنيچو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سنيچر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

p=787 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “سنیچر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

• John Shakespear (1834) “سنیچر”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śanaiścara-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press