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واج — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

wāǰ
Pronunciation:Standard: /wāǰ/
Noun (Masculine)plural: واجونهOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

واج (wāǰ) is a Pashto n-m meaning “exchange” in English او په اردو کې د «تبادلہ، بدلہ» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form واجونه.

Meanings4

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
exchange
تبادلہ، بدلہ
Example in context:

په پخوانیو وختونو کې خلکو د واج له لارې خپلې اړتیاوې پوره کولې.

“In ancient times, people used to meet their needs through barter.”

پرانے وقتوں میں لوگ تبادلے کے ذریعے اپنی ضروریات پوری کرتے تھے۔

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2
barter[general_modern]
Example in context:

واج په سودا ول ک

“to carry on trade by barter”

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3
barter goods
مال، اثاث
Example in context:

په پخوانیو وختونو کې خلکو د واج له لارې خپلې اړتیاوې پوره کولې.

“In ancient times, people used to meet their needs through barter.”

پرانے وقتوں میں لوگ تبادلے کے ذریعے اپنی ضروریات پوری کرتے تھے۔

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4
[Classical] Exchange, trading in kind, giving goods in exchange for others without payment of money[classical]
Page 1003 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
Example in context:

په پخوانیو وختونو کې خلکو د واج له لارې خپلې اړتیاوې پوره کولې.

“In ancient times, people used to meet their needs through barter.”

پرانے وقتوں میں لوگ تبادلے کے ذریعے اپنی ضروریات پوری کرتے تھے۔

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Idioms1

اصطلاحات
Idiom

واج په سودا کول

to carry on trade by barter

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Dir Plural (-ūnah)
واجونهwāǰ-ūnah
Obl Plural (-ūno)
واجونوwāǰ-ūno
Animate Plural (-ān)
واجانwāǰ-ān
Animate Obl Plural (-āno)
واجانوwāǰ-āno
Vocative Singular (-a)
واجهwāǰ-a

Examples from corpora2

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

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

PashDict Unified Lexicon

په پخوانیو وختونو کې خلکو د واج له لارې خپلې اړتیاوې پوره کولې.

“In ancient times, people used to meet their needs through barter.”

پرانے وقتوں میں لوگ تبادلے کے ذریعے اپنی ضروریات پوری کرتے تھے۔

Dunwoody Press (Zeeya A. Pashtoon)

واج په سودا ول ک

“to carry on trade by barter”

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
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Native Pashto

Native Pashto (Raverty 1860)

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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword واج (wāǰ) 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