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سنیچر

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Hindi سنیچر (sanīcar) (c. 1695),[1] from Prakrit 𑀲𑀡𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀭 (saṇiccara), likely from Sanskrit *शनैश्चर (*śanaiścara), from शनि (śani) +‎ चर (cara).[2] Cognate with Punjabi چَھنِچَّھر (chanicchar) / ਛਨਿੱਛਰ (chanicchar), Sindhi ڇَنْڇَرُ (chancharu).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) m (Hindi spelling सनीचर)

  1. (astronomy) the planet Saturn
  2. (astrology) the name of a god[3]

Noun

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سَنِیچَر • (sanīcar) m (Hindi spelling सनीचर)

  1. (chiefly India) Saturday
    Synonym: ہَفْتَہ (hafta)
  2. (figuratively) bad luck
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) poverty; dirt; dirty clothes[4]
    1. (by extension) a miser or stingy / gluttonous person[3][4]

Declension

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Declension of سنیچر
singular plural
direct سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَر (sanīcar)
oblique سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَروں (sanīcarõ)
vocative سَنِیچَر (sanīcar) سَنِیچَرو (sanīcaro)

See also

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Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār) مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) بُدھ (budh) جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt) جُمْعَہ (jum'a) سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba) اِتْوَار (itvār)

References

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  1. ^ “سنیچر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “śanaiścara-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 712
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “سنیچر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Platts, John T. (1884), “سنيچر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 689

Further reading

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More information
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سنيچو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 388
  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “سنيچر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 787
  • 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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