پ
Pushto DictionaryPushtodictionary.com
Entry #1 of 2 · Noun (Masculine)

ترم — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

turúm
Pronunciation:Standard: /turúm/
Noun (Masculine)plural: ترمونهOrigin: Origin Unknown → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

ترم (turúm) is a Pashto n-m meaning “trumpet, horn; bugle” in English او په اردو کې د «شاخ، سینگ» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form ترمونه.

Meanings · Entry 13

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
trumpet, horn; bugle
شاخ، سینگ
Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: generalStatus: verified
2
stallion
ترم
Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: generalStatus: verified
3
male animal, male, stud
نر، مردانہ، حیوان
Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: generalStatus: verified

Proverbs (Mataloona)2 unique

ولسي متلونه
ولسي متل (Proverb)

«د ترم چې څه دی، یو پودی.»

“What is the worth of the Tirm? Just a tuft of grass.”

ترم کی حیثیت ہی کیا ہے، بس گھاس کا ایک تنکا۔

Cultural context: Used to dismiss something insignificant that is being made to look important.
ولسي متل (Proverb)

«د ترم چی څه ځی یوپوف.»

“Whatever goes from the bellows is just a puff of air.”

دونکنی سے جو کچھ جاتا ہے، وہ بس ایک پھونک ہوتی ہے۔

Cultural context: Used to describe empty threats, hollow boasting, or insignificant outcomes from a big fuss.

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Dir Plural (-ūnah)
ترمونهturúm-ūnah
Obl Plural (-ūno)
ترمونوturúm-ūno
Animate Plural (-ān)
ترمانturúm-ān
Animate Obl Plural (-āno)
ترمانوturúm-āno
Vocative Singular (-a)
ترمهturúm-a

Examples from corpora4

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

PashDict Unified Lexicon

هغه په کنسرت کې ترم غږوی.

“He plays the trumpet in the concert.”

وہ کنسرٹ میں ٹرمپیٹ بجاتا ہے۔

PashDict Unified Lexicon

اوبه په ترم حالت کې وڅښئ.

“Drink the water while it is lukewarm.”

پانی نیم گرم حالت میں پی لیں۔

د پښتو متلونه (Wisdom / حکمت)

د ترم چې څه دی، یو پودی.

“What is the worth of the Tirm? Just a tuft of grass. — Used to dismiss something insignificant that is being made to look important.”

ترم کی حیثیت ہی کیا ہے، بس گھاس کا ایک تنکا۔

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
کتل ▼

Origin Unknown

Homograph 1; Flagged: origin unknown

Entry #2 of 2 · Noun (Masculine)

ترم (n-m · Entry 2)

tərám
Pronunciation:Standard: /tərám/
Noun (Masculine)plural: ترمونهOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1

Meanings · Entry 21

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
[Classical] A stallion kept particularly for breeding purposes[classical]
[کلاسيک / تاريخي]
Page 237 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
Example in context:

هغه په کنسرت کې ترم غږوی.

“He plays the trumpet in the concert.”

وہ کنسرٹ میں ٹرمپیٹ بجاتا ہے۔

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: classicalStatus: verified
PashDict Sovereign 34-to-1 Unified LexiconVerified Trilingual Academic Edition · CC BY 4.0

Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword ترم (turúm) functions as a n-m in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه