شپشتي — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition
شپشتي (s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey) is a Pashto n. m. meaning “The spoke of a wheel” in English او په اردو کې د «[کلاسيک / تاريخي]» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form يِ.
Meanings1
ماناوې او تعریفونهProverbs (Mataloona)1 unique
ولسي متلونه«بوپتي شپشتي يې وخوړې، وايي دا لا مړه ده.»
“She ate the boiled wild greens, and still says they are dead.”
اوبلی ہوئی سبزیاں بھی کھا لیں اور پھر کہتی ہے کہ یہ تو ابھی مردہ (کچی) ہیں۔
Grammar — Word forms
د کلمې ګردان او بڼېGrammatical Formحالت او بڼه | پښتو بڼهPashto Form | Phoneticتلفظ |
|---|---|---|
Plural (Classical) | يِ | يِ |
Dir Plural (-ūnah) | شپشتيونه | s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey-ūnah |
Obl Plural (-ūno) | شپشتيونو | s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey-ūno |
Animate Plural (-ān) | شپشتيان | s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey-ān |
Animate Obl Plural (-āno) | شپشتيانو | s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey-āno |
Vocative Singular (-a) | شپشتيه | s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey-a |
Examples from corpora1
قاموسي او ادبي شواهدAttested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.
بوپتي شپشتي يې وخوړې، وايي دا لا مړه ده.
“She ate the boiled wild greens, and still says they are dead. — Used to mock someone who complains constantly despite benefiting from something.”
اوبلی ہوئی سبزیاں بھی کھا لیں اور پھر کہتی ہے کہ یہ تو ابھی مردہ (کچی) ہیں۔
د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)کتل ▼
Native Pashto
Historical Native Pashto root (Raverty 1860, p. 643)
Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes
علمي او ژبني معلوماتGrammar & Morphological Classification
The headword شپشتي (s̱ẖpis̱ẖtaey) functions as a n. m. in standard Pashto lexicography. It is categorized under the Masculine nominal class. 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.