ہفتہ
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Punjabi
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Borrowed from Classical Persian هَفْتَه (hafta). Doublet of سَپْتاہ (saptāh).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /həf.t̪äː/
Noun
[edit]ہَفْتَہ • (hafta) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਫ਼ਤਾ)
- week
- (colloquial) Saturday
- Synonyms: سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), چَھنِچَّھر (chaniccahr)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ہفتہ | ||
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dir. sg. | ہَفْتَہ (haftah) | |
dir. pl. | ہَفْتے (hafte) | |
singular | plural | |
direct | ہَفْتَہ (haftah) | ہَفْتے (hafte) |
oblique | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ہَفْتیاں (hafteyāṉ) |
vocative | ہَفْتیا (hafteyā) | ہَفْتیوْ (hafteyo) |
ablative | ہَفْتیوْں (hafteyoṉ) | – |
locative | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ہَفْتِیْں (haftīṉ) |
instrumental | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ہَفْتِیْں (haftīṉ) |
Further reading
[edit]- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “ہفتہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ہفتہ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
- “ਹਫ਼ਤਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
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Borrowed from Classical Persian هَفْتَه (hafta).
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[edit]ہَفْتَہ (hafta) m
Urdu
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Borrowed from Classical Persian هَفْتَه (hafta). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi ہَفْتَہ (hfth /hafta/)ِ,[1] By surface analysis, ہَفْت (haft, “seven”) + ہ (h). Doublet of سَپْتَاہ (saptāh).
Cognates
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦəf.t̪ɑ(ː)/
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - Hyphenation: ہَف‧تَہ
Noun
[edit]ہَفْتَہ • (hafta) m (Hindi spelling हफ़्ता)
- week, se'nnight (a period of seven days)
- Synonym: (rare) سَپْتاہ (saptāh)
- 1989, مُنیر احمد شیخ [Munir Ahmed Sheikh], قِصّے تیرے، فسانے میرے [qiṣṣe tere, fasāne mere][1], Lahore: سنگِ میل پبلیکیشنز [Sang-i Mīl Publications], →OCLC, page 80:
- تمہارے انٹرویو کے لئے یہ ضروری ہے کہ میں ایک ہفتہ تمہارے ساتھ رہوں۔
- tumhāre inṭarviyū ke li'ye yih ẓurūrī hai kih maiṉ aek hafta tumhāre sāth rahūṉ.
- For your interview, it's necessary that I stay with you for a week.
- (chiefly Pakistan) Saturday
- 2006, شفیع عقیل [Shafi Aqeel], چار جدید مصور [Char Jadeed Musavvir], page 63:
- بروز ہفتہ شام ساڑھے پانچ بجے اس کی کرنل بخشی سے شادی ہو گئی۔
- barroz hafta śām sāṛhe pānc baje us kī karnal baxśī se śādī ho ga'ī.
- On Saturday, half-five in the evening, she married Colonel Bakhshi.
- Sabbath, the Seventh Day[2]
- (Mumbai, Karachi) bribe, tribute
- Synonym: رِشْوَت (riśvat)
- 1992, ندا فاضلی [Nida Fazli], دیواروں کے بیچ [dīvāron̲ ke bīc, Between the walls][2], New Delhi, page 134:
- اسی سرمائے میں سے قریب کے تھانے میں پولِس کو ہفتہ بھی دیا جاتا ہے۔
- isī sarmā'ye meṉ se qarīb ke thāne meṉ polis ko hafta bhī diya jātā hai.
- With the [same] funds, in the nearby police station, the police are also given bribe[s].
- (wrestling) Nelson hold (a trick where the opponent's neck and arms are locked).
- 1943, اشرف صبوحی دہلوی [Ashraf Ṣabūhī Dahalvī], دلّی کی چند عجیب ہستیاں [dillī kī cand ʻajīb hastiyān̲][3], Lahore, page 58:
- طاقت آزمائی کے بعد دانوں پیچ شروع ہوئے اور اک دستی ، دو دستی، آنٹی سونت ، روم ، ... ہتکوڑہ گال ، گرہ ، جھوم ، ہفتہ ٹنگڑی ، کولا ، سکھی ، جمائل گولا لاٹھی ، .... قفلی ہوتے ہوتے شہزادے نے رخشاں کی کمربند زنجیر میں ہاتھ ڈال ایک ہی قوت میں سر سے بلند کیا ۔
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1921, وحید الدین سلیم [vaḥīd-ud-dīn salīm], وضع اصطلاحات [vaẓʻ-e iṣt̤ilāḥāt][4], Aligarh, page 161:
- ہفتہ ... پہلوانوں کی ایک گرفت ، جس میں حریف کی بغلوں سے دونوں ہاتھ نکال کر گردن جکڑ لیتے ہیں۔
- hafta ... pahalvānoṉ kī aek girift , jis meṉ ḥarīf kī baġaloṉ se donoṉ hāth nikāl kar gardan jakaṛ lete haiṉ.
- Nelson hold ... a wrestler's grappling hold, in which both hands are used to encircle the opponent from under his armpits and locked around the neck.
- (poetry) hafta – an old form/genre of poetry
- 1935, گارساں د تاسی [gārsā̃ d tāsī, Garcin de Tassy], خطبات گارساں دتاسی (ترجمہ) [xut̤bāt-i Gārsān̲ Ditāsī (tarjuma), Sermons of Garcin de Tassy (Translated)][5], page 147:
- ایسے کئی ھندوستانی ، ایرانی اور ترکی شاعر ھیں جنھوں نے پانچ پانچ سات سات ایسے قصے نظم کیے ھیں۔ یہیں سے خمسے اور ھفتے کی بنیاد پڑی
- aise ka'ī hindūstānī , īrānī aur turkī śā‘ir haiṉ jinhoṉ ne pānc pānc sāt sāt aise qiṣṣe naz̤m ki'ye haiṉ. yahīṉ se xamse aur hafte kī buniyād paṛī
- There are many such Indian, Iranian and Turkish poets who have composed five or seven such parts. This is where [the forms of] Khamsas and Haftas were founded
Usage notes
[edit]Most commonly used to mean 'week' or 'Saturday'.
Declension
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | ہَفْتَہ (haftah) | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ||||||
oblique | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ہَفْتوں (haftõ) | ||||||
vocative | ہَفْتے (hafte) | ہَفْتو (hafto) |
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Descendants
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[edit]Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text) | ||||||
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اِتْوَار (itvār) | پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār) | مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) | بُدھ (budh) | جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt) | جُمْعَہ (jum'a) | سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba) |
References
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- “ہفتہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہفتہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “هفته”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “هفته”, 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
Ushojo
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Borrowed from Urdu ہَفْتَہ (hafta), borrowed from Classical Persian هَفْتَه (hafta), from Persian هَفْت + ـه.
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